Lives of notorious cooks
By: Brendan Connell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chômu Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [UK]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781907681202
Subjects: Cooks; Fiction
Description: A collection of fictional biographies of great chefs, dating from pre-history to the final days of World War I. These biographies, fantastical in character, often decadent, range from an ancient Greek whose specialty is lentils to a French king who liked nothing better than to prepare ortolans. Taoist sages brush shoulders with excessive Italians, and the skills of the magnificent cooks of Baghdad are displayed alongside those of an ex-slave from Tennessee.