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1	The Man Who Ate Everything more books like this by Jeffrey Steingarten add to wishlist Urbane, informative, and highly entertaining essays by Vogue food columnist Steingarten, about bread, choucroute, barbecue, fat farms, the wonders of red wine, and French fries cooked in horse fat--among other things. A winner of a 1998 award from the Association of Culinary Professionals. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $7.40! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Tarte a la Creme: Comedy and Gastronomy in Moliere's Theater more books like this by Ronald W. Tobin add to wishlist see all copies from $2.09! new only from $4.63! \| first editions
3	Fictional Meals and Their Function in the French Novel, 1789-1848 more books like this by James W Brown add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $13.00! \| first editions
4	Seasoned with Words: A Cookbook; Stories, Memoirs & Poems about Food more books like this by Oregon Writers Colony add to wishlist A richly varied smorgasbord of recipes combined with storytelling and poetry related to food. More than 60 members and friends of the Oregon Writers Colony wrote vignettes and recipes for this cookbook. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
5	Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature more books like this by Wenying Xu add to wishlist The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans.She begins with the general argument that eating is a means of becoming - not simply in the ... see all copies from $8.89! new only from $8.89!
6	Courtesans at Table more books like this by Laura McClure add to wishlist Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments - all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient Greece. Although prostitutes appear as early as archaic Greek lyric poetry, our fullest accounts come from the late 2nd century CE. Drawing on Book 13 of the Athenaeus' "Deipnosophistae", ... see all copies from $94.73! new only from $94.73!
7	Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment more books like this by Lilian R Furst add to wishlist see all copies from $8.30!
8	Foods of the Gods more books like this by Dr. Gary Westfahl add to wishlist These essays discuss the theory and practice of science fictional eating; the dialectic, at the level of eating, between individual needs and collective forms; and the ways that eating habits, the availability and choice of food serve to contextualize and demarcate modern fictional genres. see all copies from $39.95! new only from $69.36! \| first editions
9	For Whom the Dinner Bell Tolls: The Role and Function of Food and Drink in the Prose of Ernest Hemingway more books like this by Samuel J Rogal add to wishlist see all copies from $57.95! new only from $60.73!
10	Stephen and Bloom at Life's Feast: Alimentary Symbolism and the Creative Process in James Joyce's "Ulysses" more books like this by Lindsey Tucker add to wishlist see all copies from $76.49!
11	Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment more books like this by Professor Peter W Graham (Editor), Lilian R Furst (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $70.93!
12	The man who ate everything : and other gastronomic feats, disputes, pleasurable pursuits more books like this by Jeffrey Steingarten add to wishlist Jeffrey Steingarten will stop at nothing for good food, from investigating the scientific way to make perfect mashed potatoes to what the ideal glass of water tastes like. Here the questions he asks (like "Why aren't the French dropping like flies?") will challenge assumptions made about food. see all copies from $3.38!
13	Banquets Set Forth: Banqueting in English Renaissance Drama more books like this by Chris Meads add to wishlist Banquets proved an enduring setting in which to play out crucial and compelling sections of 99 surviving plays written between 1585 and 1642. Food, sex and revenge; food, drink and violent disorder; food, harmony and reconciliation; food, flattery and self-fashioning; arresting combinations which early modern banquets on stage contrived to present ... see all copies from $50.00! new only from $68.50! \| first editions
14	The Sherlock Holmes Cookbook more books like this by Charles A Mills add to wishlist see all copies from $38.00!
15	La scena conviviale e la sua funzione nel mondo del Boccaccio more books like this by Laura Sanguineti White add to wishlist see all copies from $7.91!
16	Das erotische Mahl : Szenen aus dem "chambre séparée" des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts more books like this by Hartmut Kiltz add to wishlist see all copies from $47.20!
17	Memorable Meals more books like this by Vincent Starrett add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! first editions
18	Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction more books like this by George E Slusser (Editor), Dr. Gary Westfahl (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $40.00!
19	Banquets et manières de table au Moyen Age more books like this by France) CUER MA (Center : Aix-en-Provence add to wishlist see all copies from $130.90! new only from $130.90!
20	Making a Meal of It. Food and Eating in Thomas Mann with a Genealogy of Alimentary Sacrifice. more books like this by Michael Kohler, Michael Kahler add to wishlist The Buddenbrooks may be the biggest eaters but they are not the only ones. All Thomas Mann's novels contain important meal scenes. Eating is not just the intake of food for survival purposes. It is a cultic act. The references and allusions are immense in their raduis - Plato's "Symposium," the Last Supper, eros and redemption. From Christian ... see all copies from $111.88!

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