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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
Sandra (Ed. Gilbert
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Description for Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
Paperback. A glorious survey of food writing from the classical world to the present. Editor(s): Gilbert, Sandra M.; Porter, Roger J. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DQ; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 251 x 33. Weight in Grams: 398.
Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one splendid volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs and poems, the book is divided into sections such as Kitchen Practices ; Food Memory: Identity, Family, Ethnicity ; Eating: Delight, Disgust, Hunger, Horror and Food Politics . Selections by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O'Neill, Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik, along with authors not usually associated with gastronomy-Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Hemingway, ... Read more
Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one splendid volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs and poems, the book is divided into sections such as Kitchen Practices ; Food Memory: Identity, Family, Ethnicity ; Eating: Delight, Disgust, Hunger, Horror and Food Politics . Selections by Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Bill Buford, Michael Pollan, Molly O'Neill, Calvin Trillin and Adam Gopnik, along with authors not usually associated with gastronomy-Maxine Hong Kingston, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Hemingway, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393353518
SKU
V9780393353518
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About Sandra (Ed. Gilbert
Sandra M. Gilbert has published numerous volumes of criticism and poetry, for which she has won many awards, including, in 2017, an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, and in 2012, together with frequent collaborator Susan Gubar, the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Berkeley, California. Roger J. Porter is a professor of English ... Read more
Reviews for Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
...the whole point of anthologies is that in among the old friends you make some new ones, and there are several worthy fresh acquaintances here.
The Independent
The Independent