Al dente
madness, beauty and the food of Rome
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Word Count
73,250 words, Guess
Page Count
293 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28338959M
- Internet Archivealdentemadnessbe0000winn
- ISBN-101847374352
- ISBN-100857208810
- ISBN-139781847374356
and 7 more
- ISBN-139780857208811
- Library of Congress Control Number2012452900
- OCLC Control Number762993780
- Better World BooksKQ-045-805
- Better World Books9780857208811
- Better World BooksKQ-926-074
- Better World BooksKP-397-105
Classifications
- DDC641.300945632
- LCCGT2853.I8 W56 2012
- LCCTX355
Description
This highly original interpretation of Rome's history, culture, art and religion takes the form of a book about food that's not really about food at all. During his first two years in Rome, David Winner found himself in turn amazed and overwhelmed by its physical, historical and cultural vastness. Then a chance encounter with an extraordinary pudding provided him with the means to start digesting his surroundings. That evening he was struck by the significance of the Roman attitude to food: a unique and unequivocal relationship between sustenance and existence, where every last aspect of life is (and always has been) 'pickled in alimentation'. In Al Dente, Winner takes us on a stroll through the city as he muses idiosyncratically on all things comestible and much else besides.
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