{"product_id":"the-food-lovers-anthology-9781851244218","title":"The Food Lovers' Anthology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShow me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.\u003c\/em\u003e - Talleyrand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.\u003c\/em\u003e - Jonathan Swift\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere is no love sincerer than the love of food\u003c\/em\u003e wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets, novelists, chefs and gourmands before and after him would seem to agree. Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating, drinking, cooking and serving food, guaranteed to whet every reader's appetite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThemed sections group together poetry and prose on grapes and bottles, the ideal cuisine, hangover cures, and vivid vignettes of dinner-party behaviour, including Mrs Gaskell eating peas with a knife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are stories about food fit for kings, a duchess's 'rumblings abdominal', fine dining, eating abroad, cooking at home and gastronomic excesses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA section on food and travel features Edmund Hillary's meal at the summit of Everest, Ernest Shackleton's dish of penguin in the Antarctic, and Joshua Slocum on the unfortunate effects of cheese and plums while sailing solo around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso on the menu are limericks, short-tempered cooks, recipes, fantasy food, special feasts, iron rations, tips on opening oysters and the uses and abuses of coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing writers as diverse as Brillat-Savarin, Edward Lear, John Keats, Colette, Charles Dickens, Maria Edgeworth, and Marcel Proust and interspersed with a generous helping of cartoons, \u003cem\u003eThe Food Lovers' Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers, and epicurean explorers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46716545958124,"sku":"9781851244218","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2998053482847.jpg?v=1754431465","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-food-lovers-anthology-9781851244218","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}