In the devil's garden : a sinful history of forbidden food / Stewart Lee Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Stewart Lee.

Contributor:

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

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gastronomy--History.

Gastronomy.

History.

Food habits--History.

Food habits.

Cooking--History.

Cooking.

Menus.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

xviii, 315 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ballantine Books, 2002.

Summary:

Drawing inspiration from the Seven Deadly Sins, Stewart Lee Allen serves up a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages and how these taboos have defined cultures around the world.

Contents:

Introduction: On Sin, Sex, and Forbidden Food

Lust. First Bite; Enveloped on Sweet Odor; Likeness of a Roasted Crab; Love Apple; The Ketchup with a Thousand Faces; Venomous Green; Tulsi Ki Chai; The Ecstasy of Being Eaten; The King's Chocolate; Tlaquetzalli; Gay Gourmand; Beijing Libido; The Rainbow Egg

Gluttony. Original Sin; Porcus Troianu; Ovis Apalis; Cocktails with the Devil; The Sultan's Date; Angel Food Cake; Saints and Supermodels; Bitter Herbs; Red Lady; The Joy of Fat; Mitterrand's Last Supper

Pride. The Egotist at Dinner; The Dirt Eaters; A Dinner Party in Kishan Garhi; The Last Supper; Humble Pie; A Prophetic Chicken; Impure Indian Corn; The Butterfly People; Sky Blue Corn Flakes; Ghost at the Dinner Table!; King's Cake

Sloth. The Job of Eating Well; The Wonderful World of English Cookery; Toast; The Incredibly Sad Tale of Philippe the Shoemaker; The Virgin's Nipples; The Root of Laziness; Potato Wars; The Last Drop; In the Green Hour

Greed. The Greedy Diner; Lazy Luscious Land; The Magic Cannibal; Smoked Green Makaku; The Laughing Man; Thou Shalt Not Eat Thy Mother; Got Milk?; American Pigs

Blasphemy. The Sacred Art of Eating; The Jewish Pig; Dinner with the Spanish Inquisition; The Kosher Question; The Lawyer in Us; Lent Egg; A Well-Risen Messiah; For What We are about to Receive; O, Dog; Holy Cow; You and Your Beautiful Hide

Anger. The Civilized Sauce; The Sadistic Chef; Deep-Fried Murder; Only if it has a Face; Hitler's Last Meal; Little Nigoda; The French Connection; Vicious Little Red Man; Insanity Popcorn; Stinking Infidels; Five Angry Vegetables; Feasting to the Death

The Eighth Sin. When Everything is Allowed and Nothing as Flavor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-315).

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.

ISBN:

0345440153

OCLC:

48038171