A Gourmet's Guide: Food and Drink From A to Z (Oxford Quick Reference) - Softcover
From Angels on Horseback to Zabaglione, this lively and authoritative guide presents the meaning, origin, and development of more than 1,200 food and beverage terms. "Stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form."--Independent.
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John Ayto is a freelance writer and author of many reference works including The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (with John Simpson), the Longman Register of New Words, and the Glutton's Glossary.
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"[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways."--Copley Newspapers
"Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form."--Independent
"An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information."--Observer
John Ayto is a freelance writer and author of many reference works including The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (with John Simpson), the Longman Register of New Words, and the Glutton's Glossary.
"[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways."--Copley Newspapers
"Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form."--Independent
"An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information."--Observer
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0192800256
- ISBN 13 9780192800251
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- Number of pages400
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