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Title Eating words : a Norton anthology of food writing / edited by Sandra M. Gilbert & Roger J. Porter ; with a foreword by Ruth Reichl.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
©2015.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  641.013 EATING    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  641.013 EAT    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  641.013 EATING    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description xxxiii, 471 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-471).
Contents Food writing through history: from biblical taboos to sinclair's stockyards -- At the family hearth: memory, identity, ethnicity -- Hunger games: the delight and dread of eating -- Kitchen practices: chefs, cooks, and tools of the trade -- Cultural tales and tables: our diverse gastronomic ways -- Food politics: disputes over the menu -- Reading food writing: the language of taste.
Summary "A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present,"--NoveList.
Subject Gastronomy -- History -- Sources.
Food in literature.
Food writing.
Food in literature. (OCoLC)fst00930837
Food writing. (OCoLC)fst00931249
Gastronomy. (OCoLC)fst00938901
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author Gilbert, Sandra M., editor.
Porter, Roger J., 1936- editor.
Reichl, Ruth, author of foreword.
ISBN 9780393239843 (hardcover)
0393239845 (hardcover)
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