num_pages: 1104
description: The Penguin Companion covers the nature and history of foodstuffs worldwide, starting from aardvark and ending with zuppa inglese. It is compiled with especially strong coverage of European and in particular British cookery and contains no recipes. Much of the material in it was previously published in Davidson's Petits Propos Culinaires and in the proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food &amp; Cookery.
language: English
title: The Penguin Companion to Food
titlecomplete: The Penguin Companion to Food
genres: Nonfiction, Nutrition, Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Reference, Food and Drink, Culinary, History, Food History
ratings_count: 350
publisher: Penguin Books