A History of Cooks and Cooking

by Michael Symons

Book Overview

Never has there been so little need to cook. Yet Michael Symons maintains that to be truly human we need to become better cooks: practical and generous sharers of food.

Fueled by James Boswell's definition of humans as cooking animals (for "no beast can cook"), Symons sets out to explore the civilizing role of cooks in history. His wanderings take us to the clay ovens of the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean and the bronze cauldrons of ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071921
• ISBN13: 9780252071928
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"