Consuming Passions, being an historic inquiry into certain English appetites, by Philippa Pullar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pullar, Philippa, 1935-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--History.

Cooking.

History.

Cooking, English.

Food--History.

Food.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[16], 278, pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First American edition].

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1971]

Contents:

I. Roman Spring

II. Orgiastic Celebration and Holy Emaciation

III. A World Apart

IV. Where are the Joys of Hall?

V. Mediaeval Summer

VI. The British Oak of Cooking

VII. Corporate Greed

VIII. A New Desire Enclosed

IX. Tarmac Winter

Appendices. I. The Stuff of Dreams; II. Recipes.

Notes:

"T 05/71"

London edition (1970) has title: Consuming passions: a history of English food and appetite.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-270) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

142510