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The Breakfast Book
Andrew Dalby
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Description for The Breakfast Book
Paperback. The most important meal of the day is also one of the most diverse. While we know that you drink tea with your eggs and bacon in Britain and hot chocolate with churros in Spain, we don't know how breakfast came to be. The Breakfast Book collects stories from around the world in an attempt to pin down the mottled history of eating in the morning. Num Pages: 232 pages, 79 illustrations, 59 in colour. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV; WBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
The most important meal of the day is also one of the most diverse. Breakfast varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to start the day with eggs, cereal and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and the Yoruba enjoy maize porridge and beans. But while we know that you drink tea with your eggs and bacon in Britain and hot chocolate with churros in Spain, we don't know how the morning meal came to be. The Breakfast Book collects ... Read more
The most important meal of the day is also one of the most diverse. Breakfast varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to start the day with eggs, cereal and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and the Yoruba enjoy maize porridge and beans. But while we know that you drink tea with your eggs and bacon in Britain and hot chocolate with churros in Spain, we don't know how the morning meal came to be. The Breakfast Book collects ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780235073
SKU
V9781780235073
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).
Reviews for The Breakfast Book
'To dip into this compendium is to be forcefully and happily reminded that breakfast, the full English or otherwise, should be the best meal of the day ... the art is handsomely reproduced ... Between us, I'd say that anyone as obsessed with the idea of breakfast as Dalby should be locked up. But he has nevertheless written a marvelously ... Read more