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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2003
This anthology of food writing, read by Josephine Bailey and others, dishes up observations, prejudices, reminiscences, and recipes-from desserts to dormice. All of us eat and everyone has opinions about food. Celebrated writers like James Beard or M.F.K. Fisher are outnumbered by less likely foodies such as Plato, Virginia Woolf, and Pablo Neruda, whose essays are woven into chapters like "Eating Yo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




