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Culture and Cuisine: A Journey Through the History of Food
Culture and Cuisine A Journey Through the History of Food Author:Jean-Francois Revel "To as great a degree as sexuality, food is inseparable from imagination," says Jean-Francois Revel. But how many of us can imagine what it was really like to eat, drink and be merry in ancient Greece, sixteenth-century Italy, or eighteenth-century France? Now, after poring over ancient cookbooks, works of literature, restaurant menus ... more »and writings of famous gastronomes, M. Revel is readyu to stir up our gastronomic imaginations with a piquant, mouth-watering history of food.« less