[Sca-cooks] Near a Thousand Tables

[johnna holloway]

It's ok but not outstanding. You can get it cheap at the moment in some 
of the used book outlets. It's a highlights version of food--history 
that offers up tidbits of this and that fact and then quickly moves on 
to the next theme that he has chosen to cover. I'd borrow a copy and 
read it before buying if you can. It may not be to your taste.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Keep an eye out for Roy Strong's Feast coming out in November in the US 
if you like foodie books.

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> Has anyone on this list read "Near a Thousand Tables" by Felipe 
> Fernandes-Armesto? Apparently it presents food as cultural history, 
> beginning with when humans figured out cooking...
> > I remain, always interested in more foodie books,
> > Anahita