[Sca-cooks] Re: MORE New In Print

[Johnna Holloway]

It gets even worse---
Besides McGee's On Food and Cooking weighing in at over 900 pages we
also have
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

  2-Volume Set  Edited by Andrew F. Smith
0195154371, hardback, 1584 pages Dec 2004,
The price is: $195.00 for the set.
Excuse me ---Special pre-publication price: $195 until January 31, 2005.
$250 thereafter.
So it's going up in February.
  In 800 intriguing articles (from over 200 contributors), the 
Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America covers the significant events, 
inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected 
th way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink.

OUP has also released
  Eating Your Words.  2000 Words to Tease Your Taste Buds
Edited by William Grimes
0195174062, hardback, 272 pages Sep 2004,
A new informative food lexicon.  Eating Your Words is a veritable
cornucopia--a thousand-and-one entries on
candies and desserts, fruits and vegetables, meats, seafood, spices,
herbs,
wines, cheeses, liqueurs, cocktails, sauces, dressings, and pastas.

Happy reading--

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Terry Decker wrote:

>Egad, I haven't had time to read Spice and I just received The Cambridge
>World History of Food (which will take months to read) today.
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>Bear
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