Hungry For You

Provenance; From the library of the noted food and wine critic Hugo Dunn-Meynell with his bookplate. Physical description; xi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Summary; This is a wide-ranging anthology which goes beyond the traditional limits of food writing: it not only celebrates wonderful meals in novels, diaries and biographies, but addresses some of the more controversial and political aspects of food as well. The chapter headings include "Famine" - anorexia, hunger strikers; "Plenty" - from Lucullus to Mrs Beeton; "Punishment" - force-feeding; "Ostentation" - politically extravagant meals; "Sex" - food before, during and after sex; "Dislikes" - school food, foreign food; and "Passions" - wonderful food. Subjects; Food habits - Literary collections. Food - Social aspects - Literary collections. Food - Symbolic aspects - Literary collections. Cannibalism - Literary collections. Food habits. Food - Anecdotes. Literature - Special subjects - Food. Cookery / food & drink etc. Collections & anthologies of various literary forms. Social Science / General. Language Arts & Discoplines / Rhetoric. Food ; Social aspects ; Food habits ; Food in literature ; Psychological aspects. Genre; Illustrated.