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Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It´s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels
Anne Chotzinoff Grossman
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Description for Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It´s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels
Paperback. "A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology."-Washington Post Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 3JF; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early-nineteenth- century dishes as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Solomongundy, Jam Roly-Poly, Toasted Cheese, Sucking Pig, Treacle-Dowdy, and, of course, Spotted Dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as well as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings, and raised pies."[A] splendid cookbook...graced with erudite bits of naval and gastronomical history....Deftly researched and written in prose ... Read more
Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early-nineteenth- century dishes as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Solomongundy, Jam Roly-Poly, Toasted Cheese, Sucking Pig, Treacle-Dowdy, and, of course, Spotted Dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as well as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings, and raised pies."[A] splendid cookbook...graced with erudite bits of naval and gastronomical history....Deftly researched and written in prose ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393320947
SKU
V9780393320947
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About Anne Chotzinoff Grossman
Anne Chotzinoff Grossman is a writer and musician. Lisa Grossman Thomas owns and operates a computer consulting company. One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
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