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Much Depends on Dinner : the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos, of an ordinary meal / Margaret Visser.

LIBRA - Blank Collection GT2860 .V57 1987
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Visser, Margaret.
Contributor:
Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Food habits.
Food--History.
Food.
History.
Dinners and dining.
England--Social life and customs.
England.
Manners and customs.
Penn Provenance:
Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)
Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (stamp)
Physical Description:
351, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Grove Press, 1987.
Contents:
What Shall We Have for Dinner?
Corn: Our Mother, Our Life
Salt: The Edible Rock
Butter
and Something "Just as Good"
Chicken: From Jungle Fowl to Patties
Rice: The Tyrant with a Soul
Lettuce: The Vicissitudes of Salad
Olive Oil: A Tree and its Fruits
Lemon Juice: A Sour Note
Ice Cream: Cold Comfort.
Notes:
Illustrations by Mary Firth.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337) and index.
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.
Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
Kislak copy has handwritten bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
Kislak copy has embossed stamp "FCB Library of Fritz Blank".
Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.
ISBN:
0802100236 :
OCLC:
15284499

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