Testicles : balls in cooking and culture / Blandine Vié ; translated from the French by Giles MacDonogh.
ISBN:
9781903018835
Title:
Testicles : balls in cooking and culture / Blandine Vié ; translated from the French by Giles MacDonogh.
Author:
Vié, Blandine.
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Publication Information:
Devon : Prospect Books, 2011.
Physical Description:
224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Originally published as "Testicules" in Paris by Les Éditions de l'Épure in 2005.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Mythology -- Admissable evidence: a little anatomy -- Testicultural foreplay -- Myths and legends -- A swinging life -- Biblical underpants -- The sporran: a little Scots purse designed to conceal what you are not supposed to see -- The naming of parts: the great taboo -- The hidden taste of words -- The Koran's idea of Heaven -- A short etymology -- Testicules and testicles -- Pope Joan's balls -- Cullions -- Purses -- Euphemisms and prudish expressions -- The symbolism of silence: Are they things or not? All or nothing? -- Less than nothing and `non sum' -- Scientific terms -- Common and facetious nicknames -- The symbolism of numbers -- One is better than nothing but hardly Christian -- Two, and binary symbolism -- Three? -- Metaphors -- Balls -- You have lovely nuts, you know? -- Epicurean metaphors -- Metonyms: when the container becomes the contents -- Hangers and other baubles -- Musical instruments, big dongs and little clanging dongers --
Contents note continued: Accessories and old friends -- Testicles and virility -- Charms a la Milanaise -- Initiation Belgian-style -- Words to evoke value -- Holy cullions -- Superlatives -- Sweet Nothings -- Trophy -- Reproductive organs -- Castration -- Testes in the kitchen: symbol and myth -- A brace of balls for Castor and Pollux -- The orgies of ancient Rome -- Rabelaisian repasts -- Court dinners and the high-water mark of testicles -- The turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The rise and fall of cucina povera -- La Pena Criadillas: the Society of Knacker Noshers -- Conclusion -- Words and expressions that feature `them' -- A load of old bollocks -- Odd -- Ballsy vowels -- Balls-ups -- Francoise Sagan's squishy Kools -- A hermaphrodite Porsche -- The hazards of criadillas -- A well-stuffed purse or how to acquire golden balls -- Testi cucul es/A pillock's tale -- Your bollocks or your life -- Method -- A little knowledge --
Contents note continued: A lexicon of anatomical, culinary and fantastic terms to describe edible testicles -- In other languages -- A little supplementary vocabulary for a better understanding of...those things -- Castration: of the castration of rams; castrating cocks -- A little savoir-faire -- A summary description -- Lamb's fries -- Kid's testicles -- If it isn't you it will be your brother... -- Bull's or calf's slabs, gonads or criadillas -- Foals' testicles -- Boar's or pig's fries -- Wild boar's balls -- Cock's stones -- Preliminaries -- Limb's fries -- Criadillas -- Wild boar's balls -- Cock's stones -- Freezing balls -- Cooking in flour or breadcrumbs -- Recipes -- Sheep's testicles or lamb's fries -- Kid's testicles -- The criadillas, slabs or gonads of a bull, bullock or calf -- The cods of wild boar -- Cock's stones -- Just this once... we end up with bollocks! -- Cocktail -- The recipe as testicle-tease -- The recipe which deceives -- The recipe as bollocks --
Contents note continued: Magic recipes -- Attributes -- A lexicon of human testicular terms.
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Books
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
Devon : Prospect Books, 2011.