Isbn: 9780701162177 - hungry for you (9 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; From the library of the noted food and wine critic Hugo Dunn-Meynell with his bookplate. Physical description; xi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Summary; This is a wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of food writing: it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels, diaries and biographies, but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include "Famine" - anorexia, hunger strikers; "Plenty" - from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton; "Punishment" - force-feeding; "Ostentation" - politically extravagant meals; "Sex" - food before, during and after sex; "Dislikes" - school food, foreign food; and "Passions" - wonderful food. Subjects; Food habits - Literary collections. Food - Social aspects - Literary collections. Food - Symbolic aspects - Literary collections. Cannibalism - Literary collections.Food habits. Food - Anecdotes. Literature - Special subjects - Food. Cookery / food & drink etc. Collections & anthologies of various literary forms. Social Science / General. Language Arts & Discoplines / Rhetoric. Food ; Social aspects ; Food habits ; Food in literature ; Psychological aspects. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; From the library of the noted food and wine critic Hugo Dunn-Meynell with his bookplate. Physical description; xi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Summary; This is a wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of food writing: it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels, diaries and biographies, but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include "Famine" - anorexia, hunger strikers; "Plenty" - from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton; "Punishment" - force-feeding; "Ostentation" - politically extravagant meals; "Sex" - food before, during and after sex; "Dislikes" - school food, foreign food; and "Passions" - wonderful food. Subjects; Food habits - Literary collections. Food - Social aspects - Literary collections. Food - Symbolic aspects - Literary collections. Cannibalism - Literary collections.Food habits. Food - Anecdotes. Literature - Special subjects - Food. Cookery / food & drink etc. Collections & anthologies of various literary forms. Social Science / General. Language Arts & Discoplines / Rhetoric. Food ; Social aspects ; Food habits ; Food in literature ; Psychological aspects. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Fading to spine. Appears to have hardly been read. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Cloth. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Type: Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback in near fine condition, pages browning, in fine unclipped dust jacket. (Book ref. 6058).

Hardback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: J.Ed Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A very wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of collections of food writing- it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels, diaries and biobraphies, but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include- (anorexia, hunger strikers); 'Plenty' (from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton); 'Punishment (force-feeding); 'Ostentation' (politica-lly extravagant meals); 'Sex' (food before, during and aftyer sex); 'Dislikes' (school food; foreign food) and 'Passions' (wonderful food) Joan Smith is a celebrated novelist and journalist who has a healthily obsessive attitude towards food - she will write a long introduction to the book. Hardback. …

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Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. A discussion of our ambivalent attitudes to food, starvation and cannibalism. 393pp. Red cloth with a tear to rear of dj.