[Sca-cooks] McGee's On Food and Cooking due in November

[Stephen Bloch]

>The new heavily revised edition of Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking
>is due out in November. There's an article on him in the October 
>issue of Gourmet.
>For those that don't know, this is a great book on food science and lore.
>http://www.curiouscook.com/onfoodandcooking.shtml

The blurb says "He has rewritten the text almost completely, EXPANDED 
IT BY TWO THIRDS, and commissioned over 100 new illustrations." 
[emphasis mine]  Gaah!  My paperback copy of the first edition is 
already almost 700 pages and weighs a kilogram.  I'll have to get the 
new one....

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					Stephen Bloch
					sbloch at adelphi.edu