Hungry for You: Essays and ExtractsChatto & Windus, 1996 - 393 pages A very wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of collections of food writing: it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels, diaries and biobraphies, but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include: (anorexia, hunger strikers); 'Plenty' (from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton); 'Punishment (force-feeding); 'Ostentation' (politica-lly extravagant meals); 'Sex' (food before, during and aftyer sex); 'Dislikes' (school food; foreign food) and 'Passions' (wonderful food) Joan Smith is a celebrated novelist and journalist who has a healthily obsessive attitude towards food - she will write a long introduction to the book. |
Contents
Sexing the Cherry | 83 |
Fine Young Cannibals | 215 |
Obsession | 267 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the 1980s and 1990s Ralf Hertel Limited preview - 2005 |