In The Devil's Garden : A Sinful History of Forbidden Food.
by
Allen, Stewart.
ISBN
:
9781782113003
Title
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In The Devil's Garden : A Sinful History of Forbidden Food.
Author
:
Allen, Stewart.
Personal Author
:
Allen, Stewart.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (185 pages)
Contents
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Intro -- Author biography -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Epigraph page -- Contents -- Introduction: On Sin, Sex, and Forbidden Food -- Lust -- First Bite -- Enveloped in Sweet Odor -- Likeness of a Roasted Crab -- Love Apple -- The Ketchup with a Thousand Faces -- Venomous Green -- Tulsi Ki Chai -- The Ecstasy of Being Eaten -- The King's Chocolate -- Tlaquetzalli -- Gay Gourmand -- Beijing Libido -- The Rainbow Egg -- Gluttony -- Original Sin -- Porcus Troianu -- Ovis Apalis -- Cocktails with the Devil -- The Sultan's Date -- Angel Food Cake -- Saints and Supermodels -- Bitter Herbs -- Red Lady -- The Joy of Fat -- Mitterrand's Last Supper -- Pride -- The Egotist at Dinner -- The Dirt Eaters -- A Dinner Party in Kishan Garhi -- The Last Supper -- Humble Pie -- A Prophetic Chicken -- Impure Indian Corn -- The Butterfly People -- Sky Blue Corn Flakes -- Ghost at the Dinner Table! -- King's Cake -- Sloth -- The Job of Eating Well -- The Wonderful World of English Cookery -- Toast -- The Incredibly Sad Tale of Philippe the Shoemaker -- The Virgin's Nipples -- The Root of Laziness -- Potato Wars -- The Last Drop -- In the Green Hour -- Greed -- The Greedy Diner -- Lazy Luscious Land -- The Magic Cannibal -- Smoked Green Makaku -- The Laughing Man -- Thou Shalt Not Eat Thy Mother -- Got Milk? -- American Pigs -- Blasphemy -- The Sacred Act of Eating -- The Jewish Pig -- Dinner with the Spanish Inquisition -- The Kosher Question -- The Lawyer in Us -- Lent Egg -- A Well-Risen Messiah -- For What We Are About to Receive -- O, Dog -- Holy Cow -- You and Your Beautiful Hide -- Anger -- The Civilized Sauce -- The Sadistic Chef -- Deep-Fried Murder -- Only if It Has a Face -- Hitler's Last Meal -- Little Nigoda -- The French Connection -- Vicious Little Red Man -- Insanity Popcorn -- Stinking Infidels -- Five Angry Vegetables.
Feasting to the Death -- The Eighth Sin -- When Everything Is Allowed and Nothing Has Flavor -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Bibliography.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
:
Gastronomy--History.
Food habits--History.
Cooking--History.
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
:
2013
Publication Information
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Edinburgh :
Canongate Books,
2013.
©2013.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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641.01309 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ON-DEMAND | Browse online or request access to ebook |