[Sca-cooks] Near a Thousand--new title

johnna holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Fri May 24 10:01:55 PDT 2002


Here's a new title that is receiving some press--
Near A Thousand Tables : A History of Food  by Fernandez-Armesto,
Felipe.

to be released in June 2002 by the Free Press
25.00 ISBN: 0-7432-2644-5

It's being described as
"Fast Food Nation meets Guns, Germs, and Steel in this
 brilliant account of the history of food. " He's a Fellow
at the University of London and a professor at Oxford, acc.
to PW. He's supposed to tackle the spoiled meat myth of
the Middle Ages, among other things.

Someone else mentioned the word Connections...

Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis



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