Pleasures of the Table (Christina Hardyment) French Bigger plates: Hainanese chicken rice

Bigger plates: Hainanese chicken rice

along with the way of life it sustained

Gilt-lettered navy cloth

taking turmeric root

Pleasures of the Table (Christina Hardyment) French Bigger plates: Hainanese chicken riceThis beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager to feed their stomachs as their imaginations. Far ranging in both time and place, this exploration of literary