I bought this from the fundraising bookshop at Lyveden New Bield, an unfinished Elizabethan-Jacobean property in Northamptonshire owned by the National Trust, that we visited this morning.
I chose it from the many books on offer because the weird title appealed to me, apparently it's a collection of essays on food, and because I aim to read a couple of nonfictions each month so am always on the look out for likely candidates!
The postcard (blank at the time, although I've now written on it!) advertising the Valentino exhibition in 2012-3 was tucked in its pages when I bought it!

Amazon Editorial Review: "Jeffrey Steingarten is to food writing what Bill Bryson is to travel writing. Whether he is hymning the joys of the perfect chip, discussing the taste of beef produced from Japanese cows which are massaged daily and fed on sake, or telling us the scientific reasons why salad is a 'silent killer', his humour and his love of good food never fail. The questions he asks (like 'Why aren't the French dropping like flies?') will challenge everything you assume you know about what you eat, yet his characteristic wit imparts masses of revelatory information in the most palatable of ways. A must for everyone who's ever enjoyed a meal - this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about food, but were too hungry to ask..."

I expected to be interested in a collection of essays on food by the some-time food critic at Vogue, but unfortunately I wasn't and quit to read something more to my taste!

Left on the fundraising shelves within the cafe area of Grewelthorpe Village Hall last night while enjoying an evening of English Country Dancing, the last time the club will be meeting there, so my final release in this location!

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