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Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany
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Item Description...
Overview
The best-selling author of Schott's Original Miscellany journeys inside the world of food and drink to provide a treasury of lesser-known but everyday trivia about food history, cooking terminology, dining etiquette, cocktail recipes, after-dinner toasts, and more. 100,000 first printing.
Publishers Description
Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany is a snapper-up of unconsidered culinary trifles. What other book will tell you the best way to cook a swan (and why you aren't allowed to); the arcane methodology of the Japanese Tea Ceremony; the menu for JFK's famous forty-fifth birthday party; and how Hemingway liked to mix his Martinis?
Which other food guide will tell you how to read your tea leaves; the best way to blow smoke rings; the reason asparagus makes your urine smell; and what a giant waterbug tastes like?
Where else will you stumble across the foods that make Homer Simpson drool 'Mmm...'; why Zeus slept on a bed of saffron; which celebrities owe their lives to the Heimlich Maneuver; and the fantastical contents of Captain Nemo's larder?
Schott's Food & Miscellany is a juxtaposition of tidbits offering food for thought (as well as thoughts on food) - whether you're a glutton, gourmand, greedy-guts, or gastronome. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 158
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 5.25" Height: 7.5"
Weight: 0.5 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Aug 21, 2004
ISBN 1582344205
EAN 9781582344201
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About this Author/Artist Ben Schott is a photographer, designer, and miscellanist. He lives in Highgate, London.
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 | Great Gift Oct 5, 2007 |
| I cannot recommend these Schott's books enough. They are fabulous gifts because they're just so entertaining. | | | | Not a cookbook, but a book filled with interesting food facts. Jun 28, 2007 |
(Not a cookbook, but a book filled with interesting food facts)
This book is a classic. A friend of mine recommended this book to me, so I bought it used on this site. I was not disappointed. The facts in this book are fun to read, and as somebody said before, this book is like "Brain food". | | | | Didn't your mom tell you,"You're what you eat"? Dec 26, 2005 |
A great little book that tells you everything you would want to know about what you eat and drink--and many things you may be better off not knowing.Glance at a few things in this book before you go out to eat and/or drinking and you'll be able to spout out a few things that will amaze everyone with your profound knowledge.
First of all,I gotta warn you,this book is very heavily weighted towards British food and drink,next comes European,then only a very small bit of American and as sparse as trees in the Arctic about anything Canadian.That aside,it is still filled with a lot of good morsels.
In this little tome you will get; Quotations as,"Once
a woman has forgiven her man,she should not reheat his sins for breakfast" Marlene Dietrich;dozens of slang words for drunkenness;recipes for cocktails such as Kamikazi,Sidecar,Long Island Ice Tea;Jimmy Carter's White House Grace;Edible flowers;all kinds of conversions,Heimlich Manoever and celebrities who owe their lves to it;Calorific values for various foods; English to American food terms such as Jacket potato-baked potato and french beans-string beans;rates for digestion of various foods;food and drink proverbs,like,"You dig your grave with your teeth.";final meal requests for some of those executed in Texas;Hangover Cures;poisonous mushrooms;Quotations on smoking like,"A good woman is only a woman,but a good cigar is a Smoke" Rudyard Kipling;etc.
I hope that is enough to whet your apetite for this book.I got a lot of laughs as well as solid information from it,you should too. | | |  | Fun collection of low-cal snacks for the brain Oct 29, 2005 |
| As in his _Original Miscellany_ (2003), the author has simply collected a large number of factoids, grouped under useful headings, but where the first published collection ranged far and wide, this one is thematic, restricting itself to comestibles and potables -- plus a number of pages on smokables -- which arguably makes it more interesting. There are quite a few items of interest, including a selection of "last meal" requests by those facing execution, a description of ullage levels, the items in Capt. Nemo's larder, a list of artists who have contributed label-art for Mouton Rothschild bottles, the characteristics of a number of popular restaurant curries, political quotations involving food, and the varieties of vegetarianism. And there are numerous sidebar quotes and comments, mostly droll. Some included items are highly idiosyncratic, like the favorite food and drink of the members of the "Bay City Rollers," or even questionable in this collection, like the details of an after-dinner dance card from 1926, as found in a printer's archive. And, as in the first volume, there is a tendency to present as canonical a bit of information that is simply one among many varieties, such as stating that Japan's "most notable" brand of beer is Sapporo (I would have said Asahi -- and the list doesn't even include Mexico), and his list of meanings for Mexican street food (the contents and preparation of chimichangas, enchiladas, tacos, nachos, etc) seems to assume a standardization that really doesn't exist. Also, why include, as "curious names" in a list of Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors, Vanilla Caramel Fudge and Chocolate Fudge Brownie? But any shortcomings are made up for by his inclusion of the complete lyrics of the Chiquita Banana song. This is a good book for a couple of hours in the hammock and would also make a nice gift for foodies. | | | | Brain candy Jul 22, 2005 |
Having the same flavor as _Schott's Original Miscellany_, _Food and Drink Miscellany_ is a veritable smorgasboard of information and trivia related to edibles. Topics range from the handy and helpful ("Cheers!" in 32 "languages", English to American food terms, Biblical food abominations, how to sharpen a carving knife), to the humourous (94 slang words for drunkeness, Swift's wind and the Comic cookery book) to the truly bizzare (why asparagus makes urine smell, favorite food and drink of the Bay City Rollers).
Great fun to read, it would be a hit with anyone who loves to cook, is a fan of meals or drinks with gusto. | | | Write your own review about Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany
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