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Food: The Vital Stuff (Granta (Viking)) - Softcover

Coetzee, J. M.; Lanchester, John; Swift, Graham

 
9780140141139: Food: The Vital Stuff (Granta (Viking))
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140141138 ISBN 13: 9780140141139
Verlag: Granta Books, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

An aphorism: you are what you eat. A second aphorism: the discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star. A third aphorism: dessert without cheese is like a pretty woman with only one eye. The French philosopher-gourmet Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote all three almost two centuries ago. Like most aphorisms they have the cracked ring of the nearly true. Brillat-Savarin was on surer ground - ground as hard as ungrated Parmesan - when he wrote: The world is nothing without life, and all that lives takes nourishment. So: you are what you eat, and if you don't eat, you aren't. This issue of Granta examines the vital stuff. Food as indulgence, certainly (gastro-pornography - blinis with caviar, roast puffin), but also food as a taboo, a cruelty, a repulsion, a desperate need, a failed sex aid, and a way of earning your living.

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140141138
ISBN 13 
9780140141139
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
252
Herausgeber
Granta
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