Gourmet's Guide; Food & Drink from A to Z

"[A] book that with wit and erudition gently urges on us the notions that all things change, that the more things change the more they remain the same and that most of the enmities suffered among countries are ridiculous because we share hungers and languages in a thousand subtle ways."--Copley Newspapers "Essential reading for those who want to know not only what they are eating, but also why it is called what it is....The book is stuffed with delightful morsels in a digestible form."--Independent "An olla podrida of entertaining and recondite information."--ObserverAyto, John is the author of 'Gourmet's Guide; Food & Drink from A to Z' with ISBN 9780192800251 and ISBN 0192800256.