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What the great ate : a curious history of food and fame
Record details
- ISBN: 0307461955
- ISBN: 9780307461957
- ISBN: 0307461955
- ISBN: 9780307461957
- ISBN: 9780307461957 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0307461955 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
print
ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Three Rivers Press, ©2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chicken à la king: the world's most powerful rulers ate with authority -- Eating their words: writers plotted a novel approach to dining -- Soul food: prophets and philosophers didn't live on bread alone -- What Edvard munched: visual artists mixed palettes and palates -- Hail to the beef: dining was drama from Washington to Obama -- Dinner theater: stange and screen stars were showy eaters -- General foods: for history's warriors, rations were sometimes irrational -- Experiments in dining: food was a stimulus to the scientific method -- Singing for their supper: musicians kept their cooking in concert -- Business lunch: entrepreneurs were eccentric eaters -- Playing with their food: sports stars fasted on more than peanuts and cracker jacks -- Delicous discoveries: explorers plunged into uncharted meals. |
Summary, etc.: | A lighthearted pop history of the diets of celebrities and famous historical figures shares whimsical anecdotes, including Angelina Jolie's consumption of roaches and Lord Byron's vinegar weight-loss regime. |
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