The Penguin Book of Food and Drink by Paul Levy

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  • ISBN 10 067085266X
  • ISBN 13 9780670852666
  • Published Jun 01 1999
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 400
  • Language English
  • Countries United Kingdom
  • Publisher Penguin UK

Publishers Text

This work draws on the considerable literature of food and wine writing from biblical feasts to the present day by way of Proust, Dickens, Thackeray, John Evelyn, Sidney Smith, Keats, Chaucer, Swinburne, Yeats, and Virginia Woolfe. There are food-related lines by E.E. Cummings and Auden, extracts from diarists like Parson Woodforde, and meals from Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Margaret Drabble, Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout and Julian Barnes. It also includes essays on food and drink by Raymond Sokolov, Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, and an Italo Calvino story on cannibalism.

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