by
Hopkins, Jerry.
Call Number
641.013 HOP
Publication Date
2014
Summary
In this gastrological romp, Jerry Hopkins, shares tales of gustatory tidbits from six continents. Weaving history and autobiography, Hopkins regales with an array of startling facts about the world's eating habits. Strange Foods begins with rat tales from the Roman Empire and imperial China and continues on to stories from locales where rat remains a mouth-watering hors d'oeuvre or hearty entrée today. There are at least 40 serving suggestions for crocodile alone! And there are more than 250 photographs from acclaimed photographer Michael Freeman, whose aim is true and who eats what he shoots
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40547.0508
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Ranhofer, Charles, author.
Call Number
XX(272687.1)
Publication Date
1894
Summary
A complete treatise of analytical and practical studies on the culinary art including: table and wine service, how to prepare and cook dishes, an index for marketing, a great variety of bills of fare for breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, suppers, ambigus, buffets, etc, and a selection of interesting bills of fare of Delmonico's from 1862 to 1894.
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39655.1563
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Roskam, Geert.
Call Number
880
Publication Date
2007
Summary
Plutarch''s De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus'' famous ideal of an ''unnoticed life'' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch''s polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch''s anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus'' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarc.
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Force, Pierre.
Call Number
330.15 22
Publication Date
2003
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A study of the history of the concept of self-interest before Adam Smith, in order to understand what it meant when Adam Smith used it as an axiom in The Wealth of Nations. The author shows that Smith's theory refutes the 'selfish hypothesis' yet integrates it at the same time.
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Bowditch, Phebe Lowell, 1961-
Call Number
874.01 22
Publication Date
2001
Summary
This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures.
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Sharples, R. W.
Call Number
180 20
Publication Date
1996
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Miller, Jon, 1970-
Call Number
190 22
Publication Date
2003
Summary
Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment.
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Weir, David, 1947 April 20-
Call Number
809.91 20
Publication Date
1995
Summary
The cultural phenomenon known as "decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue that fluorished briefly in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. This study makes the case for decadence as a literary movement in its own right, based on a set of aesthetic principles that formed a transitional link between romanticism and modernism. Understood in this developmental context, decadence represents the aesthetic substratum of a wide range of fin-de-siecle literary schools, including naturalism, realism, Parnassianism, aestheticism, and symbolism. As an impulse toward modernism, it prefigures the thematic, structural, and stylistic concerns of later literature. David Weir demonstrates his thesis by analyzing a number of French, English, Italian, and American novels, each associated with some specific decadent literary tendency. The book concludes by arguing that the decadent sensibility persists in popular culture and contemporary theory, with multiculturalism and postmodernism representing its most current manifestations.
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by
Bloom, Harold.
Call Number
801.3 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
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Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957-
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780.82 22
Publication Date
2006
Summary
The siren is a remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
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Crocker, Betty.
Call Number
XX(272772.1)
Publication Date
1933
Summary
Advertising pamphlet for Bisquick - includes recipes.
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Allhoff, Fritz.
Call Number
641.3001 FOO
Publication Date
2009
Summary
Food & Philosophy offers a collection of essays which explore a range of philosophical topics related to food; it joins Wine & Philosophy and Beer & Philosophy in in the ""Epicurean Trilogy."" Essays are organized thematically and written by philosophers, food writers, and professional chefs. Provides a critical reflection on what and how we eat can contribute to a robust enjoyment of gastronomic pleasures. A thoughtful, yet playful collection which emphasizes the importance of food as a proper object of philosophical reflection in its own right.
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