All Manners of Food

by Stephen Mennell

Book Overview

So close geographically, how could France and England be so enormously far apart gastronomically? Not just in different recipes and ways of cooking, but in their underlying attitudes toward the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631132449
• ISBN13: 9780631132448
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 397 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

still a classic

This is a first class academic work. I have been assigned this book for my social history of food class for over ten years now. The students find it tough going. It is fairly "dry" but that's because it contains what many books on food to not .... an argument.

an excellent book

I'm not sure what the previous reviewer expects in a book; sure this isn't a pop survey, but it's intelligent, thorough, and interesting. It is more of a scholarly history, so if you're after something simple try another book. This is very well researched, and if you're interested in the history of cooking as I am, it's an absorbing read.