MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER

New York: Grove Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. White boards, red cloth boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. 351 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Much Depends on Dinner explores the webs of myth and legend, the growth of empires - political and economic, the imaginations of scientist and artists, and the appetites both secular and spiritual that have been nourished by the foods we eat most often. Salt, for instance, opened trade routes between Europe and Africa in the middle ages, while corn flakes changed our eating habits in the Depression. Pages lightly toned, boards clean. Dust wrapper lightly soiled at edges. Covered in protective mylar.