In The Devil's Garden : A Sinful History of Forbidden Food.
by
 
Allen, Stewart.

ISBN
9781782113003

Title
In The Devil's Garden : A Sinful History of Forbidden Food.

Author
Allen, Stewart.

Personal Author
Allen, Stewart.

Physical Description
1 online resource (185 pages)

Contents
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
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
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
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Publication Date
2013

Publication Information
Edinburgh :
 
Canongate Books,
 
2013.
 
©2013.


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641.013091:E-BOOK11:ON-DEMANDBrowse online or request access to ebook