What the Great Ate
A Curious History of Food and Fame
What was eating them? And vice versa. In What the Great Ate, Matthew and Mark Jacob have cooked up a bountiful sampling of the peculiar culinary likes, dislikes, habits, and attitudes of famous-and often notorious-figures throughout history. Here is food • As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase we're making spaghetti to inform his wife if he'd be (illegally) dueling later that day. • As superstition: Baseball star Wade Boggs credited his on-field success to eating chicken before nearly every game. • In service to country: President Thomas Jefferson, America's original foodie, introduced eggplant to the United States and wrote down the…
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Weitere Autoren: Jacob, Mark
- ISBN: 978-0-307-46196-4
- EAN: 9780307461964
- Produktnummer: 15728331
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'020 KB
Über den Autor
MATTHEW JACOB's opinion columns have been published by the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and other print and online media. Visit his popular food blog at Foodphoria.blogspot.com. MARK JACOB, deputy metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, was part of the team that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He is the author of the newspaper's popular 10 Things You Might Not Know feature. This is his fourth book.
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