A Mediterranean feast : the story of the birth of the celebrated cuisines of the Mediterranean, from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs : with more than 500 recipes
- Responsibility
- Clifford A. Wright.
- Imprint
- New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., c1999.
- Physical description
- xxiv, 815 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm
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| Call number | Note | Status |
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| TX641 .W75 1999 |
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Wright, Clifford A.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 761-787) and indexes.
- Contents
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- Pt. I. An algebra of Mediterranean gastronomy
- The historical foundation of Mediterranean gastronomy
- Harvest of sorrow, food of dreams
- Feast, anti-feast
- pt. II. An ecology of Mediterranean gastronomy
- "They eat from one bowl": lives in the mountains, meadows, plains, and deserts
- Le serenissima, la superba, and the sublime porte
- Frutti di Mare
- Islands of paradise and isolation
- pt. III. A measure of Mediterranean gastronomy
- The spice orgy
- Grain for princes, grain for dogs
- Hard wheat and its famous inventions.
- Summary
- A sweeping culinary history and cookbook of extraordinary scope, with more than 500 recipes from Italy, Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, and the Near East.
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- Publication date
- 1999
- Awards
- James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Cookbook Awards : Cookbook of the Year.
- ISBN
- 0688153054
- 9780688153052
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