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The Breakfast Book
Andrew Dalby
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Description for The Breakfast Book
Hardcover.
'To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day' wrote William Somerset Maugham, but what exactly is breakfast? It varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even though individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While we love our traditional bacon and eggs, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and New Zealanders enjoy porridge. Yet we don't know how breakfast came to be. Taking a multifaceted approach to the story of the morning meal, The Breakfast Book collects narratives of breakfast in an attempt to pin down the mottled history ... Read more
'To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day' wrote William Somerset Maugham, but what exactly is breakfast? It varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even though individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While we love our traditional bacon and eggs, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and New Zealanders enjoy porridge. Yet we don't know how breakfast came to be. Taking a multifaceted approach to the story of the morning meal, The Breakfast Book collects narratives of breakfast in an attempt to pin down the mottled history ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230863
SKU
V9781780230863
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Andrew Dalby
Andrew Dalby is a linguist, translator and historian, based in France, and the author of many books on food history including Cheese: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2009).
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