Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends On Dinner

Author : Margaret Visser
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802196462
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner written by Margaret Visser and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “funny and fascinating” cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating (The Village Voice). This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it. Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner represents a different course or garnish, which Margaret Visser handpicks from the most ordinary American dinner: among them corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad dressed in lemon juice and olive oil, and ice cream. Visser tells the story behind each of these foods and in the course of her inquiries reveals some unexpected treats: the history of Corn Flakes; the secret behind the more dissatisfactory California olives (they’re picked green, chemically blackened, and sterilized); and the fact that, in Africa, citrus fruits are eaten whole, rind and all. For food lovers of all kinds, unexpectedly entertaining book is a treasure of information from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Rituals of Dinner. “Rich in surprising facts, unexpected connections, and a well-documented outrage at what modern technology and agribusiness have done to purity and quality . . . A remarkable amount of information [presented] seamlessly and entertainingly.” —Library Journal

Author : Margaret Visser
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Collier Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Depends on Dinner written by Margaret Visser and published by New York, N.Y. : Collier Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat. For food lovers of all kinds, this unexpectedly funny and serious book is a treasure of information, shedding light on one of our most favorite pastimes. Line drawings.

Author : Margaret Visser
Publisher : HarperPerennial Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780006391043
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Depends on Dinner written by Margaret Visser and published by HarperPerennial Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning unanimous praise on its publication and now available in paperback from Grove Press, Much Depends on Dinner is a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat. Presented as a meal, each chapter represents a different course or garnish. Borrowing from Byron's classic poem "Don Juan" for her title ("Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner"), writer Margaret Visser looks to the most ordinary American dinner for her subject -- corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad dressed in lemon juice and olive oil, and ice cream -- submerging herself in the story behind each food. In this indulgent and perceptive guide we hear the history of Corn Flakes, why canned California olives are so unsatisfactory (they're picked green, chemically blackened, then sterilized), and the fact that in Africa, citrus fruit is eaten rind and all. For food lovers of all kinds, this unexpectedly funny and serious book is a treasure of information, shedding light on one of our most favorite pastimes.

Author : Daniel Lieberman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030774180X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Human Body written by Daniel Lieberman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line drawings throughout. “Fascinating.... A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the making of our physicality.”—Nature In this book, Daniel E. Lieberman illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes even compel us to create a more salubrious environment and pursue better lifestyles.

Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133057
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taste written by Denise Gigante and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: div What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of taste serves to mediate aesthetic judgment and consumerism, gusto and snobbery, gastronomes and gluttons, vampires and vegetarians, as well as the philosophy and physiology of food. The author advances a theory of taste based on Milton’s model of the human as consumer (and digester) of food, words, and other commodities—a consumer whose tasteful, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth’s feeding mind, Lamb’s gastronomical essays, Byron’s cannibals and other deviant diners, and Kantian nausea, Taste resituates Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics. /DIV

Author : Dr. Warren Belasco
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940466
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meals to Come written by Dr. Warren Belasco and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the future of the food supply in myriad ways, and here Belasco explores a fascinating array of material ranging over two hundred years—from futuristic novels and films to world's fairs, Disney amusement parks, supermarket and restaurant architecture, organic farmers' markets, debates over genetic engineering, and more. Placing food issues in this deep historical context, he provides an innovative framework for understanding the future of food today—when new prophets warn us against complacency at the same time that new technologies offer promising solutions. But will our grandchildren's grandchildren enjoy the cornucopian bounty most of us take for granted? This first history of the future to put food at the center of the story provides an intriguing perspective on this question for anyone—from general readers to policy analysts, historians, and students of the future—who has wondered about the future of life's most basic requirement.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Author : William Howard Adams
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344186
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Luxury written by William Howard Adams and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The little extras""

Author : Roblyn Rawlins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474252575
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Dinner written by Roblyn Rawlins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a vast selection of foods and thousands of recipes to choose from, how do home cooks in America decide what to cook – and what does their cooking mean to them? Answering this question, Making Dinner is an empirical study of home cooking in the United States. Drawing on a combination of research methods, which includes in-depth interviews with over 50 cooks and cooking journals documenting over 300 home-cooked dinners, Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert explore how American home cooks think and feel about themselves, food, and cooking. Their findings reveal distinct types of cook-the family-first cook, the traditional cook, and the keen cook -and demonstrate how personal identities, family relationships, ideologies of gender and parenthood, and structural constraints all influence what ends up on the plate. Rawlins and Livert reveal research that fills the data gap on practices of home cooking in everyday life. This is an important contribution to fields such as food studies, health and nutrition, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, gender studies, and American studies.

Author : Charles Noel Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2022 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical written by Charles Noel Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 2022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: