Consuming Culture

New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. Green boards, tan cloth covered spine. Near fine, in near fine dust wrapper. 246 pages. 24 x 16 cm. "Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are," French gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared. This world tour of food culture shows how food relates to sex, to the culinary enigmas of meat versus vegetables, and the often baffling rules of eating etiquette. Interior, boards, and dust wrapper clean and crisp. Covered in protective mylar.