Food

CLASSIC! Waverly Root's idiosyncratic guide to foods of the world: 200+ essays on more common foods (with shorter entries on the uncommon).Waverly Root tells the history of foods from ancient to modern times-the most unexpected, the most curious, the most amusing facts about food imaginable. Food is belles-lettres encyclopedia presented in the witty, erudite style unique to the author. It is an informal history of food in art-with 200 spectacular illustrations. Not a Cookbook.