In The Devil's Garden

Informationen zum Autor Currently living in Brooklyn, Stewart Lee Allen has also called California, Kathmandu, Sydney, San Cristobel, Calcutta and San Francisco home. When not lounging about a café in a far-flung corner of the globe, he has worked as a grape-picker, theatrical director, bathroom attendant, grave-digger, punk musician, smuggler and, of course, a writer. He is the author of the award-winning fiction collection The Art of Rape as well as his acclaimed history of coffee, The Devil's Cup . Klappentext "A finger buffet of travellers' and fishermen's tales associated with food and food taboos, loosely chapter-bound by the Seven Deadly Sins... If we are, as the eighteenth-century food writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin first suggested, what we eat, then Allen is a strange and adventuresome man" The Times From the forbidden fruit of the Old Testament to the numerous laws broken at Francois Mitterand's final meal, In the Devil's Garden is a mouth-watering history of food taboos from around the world - a smorgasbord of culinary titbits to spice up any after-dinner conversation. In an age when half the world's population - from cow-loving Hindus to kosher Jews and Western vegetarians - still lives with harsh dietary restrictions, Allen reveals just how significant, and pervasive, our relationship with food has always been. "Food factoids, whimsy, mad opinion, history and hearsay tumble across the pages of In the Devil's Garden ... Allen's anecdote-packed, gonzo writing style swashbuckles." Daily Telegraph "By captivating the reader with his sardonic wit, Allen turns the dryest food facts into succulent morsels. A five-star read." What's on in London Cover illustration: Mark Swan. Cover design: Ghost Zusammenfassung Our history has been peppered with food taboos that have shaped civilizations. Allen's historical smorgasbord includes the importance of chocolate in the French Revolution, how a spat between chefs caused a rift in the Catholic Church that lasted a thousand years and why Caesar fought food....

Autorentext
Currently living in Brooklyn, Stewart Lee Allen has also called California, Kathmandu, Sydney, San Cristobel, Calcutta and San Francisco home. When not lounging about a café in a far-flung corner of the globe, he has worked as a grape-picker, theatrical director, bathroom attendant, grave-digger, punk musician, smuggler and, of course, a writer. He is the author of the award-winning fiction collection The Art of Rape as well as his acclaimed history of coffee, The Devil's Cup.

Klappentext

"A finger buffet of travellers' and fishermen's tales associated with food and food taboos, loosely chapter-bound by the Seven Deadly Sins... If we are, as the eighteenth-century food writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin first suggested, what we eat, then Allen is a strange and adventuresome man"
The Times

From the forbidden fruit of the Old Testament to the numerous laws broken at Francois Mitterand's final meal, In the Devil's Garden is a mouth-watering history of food taboos from around the world - a smorgasbord of culinary titbits to spice up any after-dinner conversation.

In an age when half the world's population - from cow-loving Hindus to kosher Jews and Western vegetarians - still lives with harsh dietary restrictions, Allen reveals just how significant, and pervasive, our relationship with food has always been.

"Food factoids, whimsy, mad opinion, history and hearsay tumble across the pages of In the Devil's Garden ... Allen's anecdote-packed, gonzo writing style swashbuckles." Daily Telegraph

"By captivating the reader with his sardonic wit, Allen turns the dryest food facts into succulent morsels. A five-star read." What's on in London

Cover illustration: Mark Swan. Cover design: Ghost

Zusammenfassung
Our history has been peppered with food taboos that have shaped civilizations. Allen's historical smorgasbord includes the importance of chocolate in the French Revolution, how a spat between chefs caused a rift in the Catholic Church that lasted a thousand years and why Caesar fought food.