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Feast Your Eyes on Food

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Feast Your Eyes on Food invites young readers to explore the fascinating journey of food from farm to table. This visual guide offers insights into the history and science of ingredients such as pasta, cheese, onions, and fruit. Written in digestible chapters, the book combines enticing images with engaging facts, making it a delightful introduction to food and drink from around the world.
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A perfect choice for children curious about food, cooking, and culinary science, as well as families looking for an educational yet visually appealing read.

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Fall in love with food with this beautiful compendium that celebrates the rich variety of more than 1,000 delicious things to eat.

Fall in love with food with this beautiful compendium that celebrates the rich variety of more than 1,000 delicious things to eat.

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Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022 in the Food Book category.

Learn how flour and water were revolutionised as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes, discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry, and marvel at nature’s ingenuity as you take a bite from eighteen varieties of apples and pears.

Split into digestible chapters, this visual guide explores the journey from farm to table, letting you taste your way around the world from the comfort of home.

Feast Your Eyes on Food is the perfect companion for any culinary enthusiast.

Series: A Food Encyclopedia of More Than 1,000 Delicious Things to Eat

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  • Feast Your Eyes on Food
    Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022 in the Food Book category. Learn how flour and water were revolutionised as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes, discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry, and marvel at nature’s ingenuity as you take a bite from eighteen varieties of apples and...
    Hardback
    $3999
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    Ships in 4-6 weeks

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Praised as “the most enchantingly beautiful encyclopaedia of food,” this book offers readers both visual delight and rich learning experiences.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781913520229

Publisher: Magic Cat Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 September 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Magic Cat Publishing

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Zoe Barker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 256.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 96

About the Author

Laura Gladwin trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London's biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for more than 500 events. She now works as a writer and editor specializing in food and drink, writing for the Good Food Guide and editing high-profile cookery books for chefs including Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi and Heston Blumenthal.


Zoe Barker is an illustrator gifted with powers of visual trickery, using watercolour washes and intricately textured graphite to create portraits, still-lifes and character designs that convey impressive visual depth. She lives in London where her clients include Soho House, Ralph Lauren and Liberty of London.

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