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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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LIBRA GT2860 .V57 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Visser, Margaret.
- 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
- Online:
- Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page
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