Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

A History of English Food and Appetite

In this age of convenience food, one may look back on the past with envy. The luxury of the Romans, for whom eating and sex (often conducted simultaneously) allayed life's boredom; the sumptuous variety of the Middle Ages; the glittering dining tables of wealthy Victorians and Edwardians: was their cuisine really better, or simply more self-indulgent? In Consuming Passions, Philippa Pullar gives us an absorbing and often hilarious history of English appetite. From Roman orgies to Puritanism, from the great class divide of the 19th century to the egalitarian seventies, she explores English eating habits in all their diversity, demonstrating the surprising parallels between food, religion, and sex. Originally published in 1970, Consuming Passions now features a new afterword by acclaimed food writer Paul Levy, bringing the story right up the 21st century.

Consuming Passions

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Sylvia Lovegren

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

Seven Decades of Food Fads

Like fashions and fads, food-even bad food-has a history, and Lovegren's Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past. Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century.

Fashionable Food

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Rebecca Rupp

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Mississippi

Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables

Looks at the history of vegetables and vegetable gardening.

How Carrots Won the Trojan War

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