num_pages: 304
description: Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.Talleyrand He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.Jonathan Swift There is no love sincerer than the love of food wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets novelists chefs and gourmands before and after him would seem to agree. Collected in this anthology is a mouthwatering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating drinking cooking and serving food that is guaranteed to whet every readers appetite.Themed sections group together poetry and prose on grapes and bottles the ideal cuisine hangover cures and vivid vignettes about dinner party behavior. There are stories about food fit for kings a duchesss rumblings abdominal fine dining eating abroad cooking at home and gastronomic excesses. A section on food and travel features Edmund Hillarys meal at the summit of Everest Ernest Shackletons dish of penguin in the Antarctic and Joshua Slocum on the unfortunate effects of cheese and plums while sailing solo around the world. Also on the menu are limericks short-tempered cooks recipes fantasy food special feasts iron rations tips on opening oysters and the uses and abuses of coffee.Featuring writers as diverse as Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Edward Lear John Keats Charles Dickens Maria Edgeworth and Marcel Proust garnished with a generous helping of cartoons this is a perfect gift for foodies chefs picnickers and epicurean explorers.
language: English
title: The Food Lovers' Anthology: A Literary Compendium
publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford