Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen - Couverture rigide

Wilson, Bee

 
9781846143403: Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1846143403 ISBN 13 : 9781846143403
Editeur : Particular Books, 2012

Synopsis

Bee Wilson is the beloved food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charming and original new book, Consider the Fork, explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live.

A wooden spoon - most trusty and loveable of kitchen implements - looks like the opposite of 'technology', as the word is normally understood. But look closer. Is it oval or round? Does it have an extra-long handle to give your hand a place of greater safety from a hot skillet? Or a pointy bit at one side to get the lumpy bits in the corner of the pan? It took countless inventions to get to the well-equipped kitchens we have now, where our old low-tech spoon is joined by mixers, freezers and microwaves, but the story of human invention in the kitchen is largely unseen. Discovering the histories of our knives, ovens and kitchens themselves, Bee Wilson explores, among many other things, why the French and Chinese have such different cultures of the knife; and why Roman kitchens contain so many implements we recognize. Encompassing inventors, scientists, cooks and chefs, this is the previously unsung history of our kitchens.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bee Wilson writes a weekly food column, 'The Kitchen Thinker' in The Sunday Telegraph, for which she has three times been named the Guild of Food Writers Food Journalist of the Year. Her previous books include The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us and Swindled!. Before she became a food writer, she was a Research Fellow in History at St John's College, Cambridge. She has also been a semi-finalist on Masterchef. Her favourite kitchen implement is currently the potato ricer.

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Éditeur
Particular Books
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1846143403
ISBN 13 
9781846143403
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780465056972: Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0465056970 ISBN 13 :  9780465056972
Editeur : Basic Books, 2013
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