What the Great Ate : A Curious History of Food and Fame

English

ISBN: 0307461955

EAN: 9780307461957

Category: Cooking / History

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 07/16/2010

Synopsis: What was eating them? And vice versa. InWhat 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 bull; As code: Benito Mussolini used the phrase wersre making spaghetti to inform his wife if hersd be (illegally) dueling later that day. bull; As superstition: Baseball star Wade Boggs credited his on-field success to eating chicken before nearly every game. bull; In service to country: President Thomas Jefferson, Americarss original foodie, introduced eggplant to the United States and wrote down the nationrss first recipe for ice cream. From Emperor Nero to Bette Davis, Babe Ruth to Barack Obama, the bite-size tidbits inWhat the Great Atewill whet your appetite for tantalizing trivia.

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What the Great Ate : A Curious History of Food and Fame

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.84 inches

Width: 5.16 inches

Length: 7.99 inches

Weight: 10.02 oz

Pages: 288