Food may not rank with white whales or the family as the most important literary subject, but in fact, major writers past and present have had plenty to say about it. This delightful divertissement brings together a tasty menu of literary gems about food. Anthony Trollope discusses cake while Paul Auster laments the bitter breaking of two eggs. Other scrumptious entries riff on American and foreign cuisine, restaurants, cooking, table manners, Dickens' famous Christmas pudding, Proust's Madeleine, and Solzhenitsyn's challenging cabbage.
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"...'A Food Lover's Treasury, the huddling of many writers one upon another of divers tastes is anything but pestiferous, the sundry quotations from their work often delectable." — The Washington Post
A Food Lover's treasury is not at all the myopic, predictable text we might fear, Tucked inside are a number of enthralling chapters that veer off in the direction of the pathological "Booknesting," the frankly fetishistic in "Things To Do With Books" and even the terrifying in "The Enemies of Books." —The Plain Dealer
A Food Lover's treasury is not at all the myopic, predictable text we might fear, Tucked inside are a number of enthralling chapters that veer off in the direction of the pathological "Booknesting," the frankly fetishistic in "Things To Do With Books" and even the terrifying in "The Enemies of Books." —The Plain Dealer
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Lynda Murphy lives in York with her husband, daughter and Jack Russell terrier -- a match for any of the canine heroines in works of great literature. She enjoys lingering over texts not looking for quotations and buying brand new copies of fiction from big, brightly lit air-conditioned bookshops. Julie Rugg lives in York with her husband and daughter.
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This book is just plain fun to read for anyone who loves food! Snippets, paragraphs and pages from countless books -- all of them about food -- are collected in various categories. These range from warnings about dining at an inn to the dreadful specter of doing without dinner. The excerpts are taken from wildly different genre...from "Little Women" to "A Day In The Live of Ivan Denisovich." And each one is delicious.
A great beach read, something to tuck in a purse and whip out while standing on line at the bank (or waiting for a table at a restaurant).
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All of us have opinions stated or unstated, mumbled to ourselves or shouted from the rooftops. There is one subject on which everyone has an opinion and that is food. Polite diners may cautiously use their forks to push aside an unwanted slice of mango while a baby who cannot yet speak can utter a distinct blagh as he spits out his first taste of peas. Yes, opinions about food are everywhere, and most delightfully collected in A Food Lover's Treasury, a book about the references to food that are found in literature.
There are over 400 entries, some as brief and clear as Samuel Johnson's, "A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown as good for nothing." Others opine at length, a bit lyrically about their favorite dishes. In Sea and Sardinia D.H. Lawrence was ardent in his praise of vegetable shop displays on a "dark, greasy, night-stricken street," writing of how the street "seems to beam with these vegetables, all this fresh delicate flesh of luminous vegetables piled there in the air..." Yes, we are passionate about food! Entries are organized in nine chapters beginning with Food Philosophy through Local Delicacies and concluding with Manners and Morals. Readers may well find them themselves tempted as I was to go back to a favorite book and locate the quote in the context of the narrative. That was good fun and so is the reading of A Food Lover's Treasury. Tuck your napkin in and enjoy! - Gail Cooke
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