Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, mostly at bottom edges. Previous owner name sticker on endpaper. ; Glossy paper, color illustrations. Due to size, ships within US only and only by media rate mail. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 224 pp.

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Title: THE GOURMET ATLAS The History, Origin, and Migration of Foods of the World
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0028619889
ISBN 13: 9780028619880
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Explores cuisine from around the world while locating the origins of the different kinds of foods on world maps, and includes a discussion of eating differences in different regions with explanations as to how that came to be.

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Susie Ward was born and raised in Southern California, but has been settled in England for the last 25 years. She concentrates on food, cookery, and travel writing and her appetite for learning about other cultures and cuisines is insatiable. Her books include The Art of the Picnic, Finger Food, Lebanese Cooking, Russian Cooking and, her latest, A Flavor of Provence. Claire Clifton is an American author, journalist, and artist who has lived in England since the late 1960s. She and her partner, Colin Spencer, farm two allotments in Winchelsea, a small coastal town, and together edited the anthology The Faber Book of Food. Jenny Stacey is a freelance food writer and stylist. She has worked for several major women's magazines styling features and testing and originating her own recipes. Mary Donovan is a cookbook editor at the Culinary Institute of America, New York and the author of two culinary careers books. During her editorial fellowship at the Institute she has carried out research on food purchasing and storage and healthy cooking methods that enhance the nutritional value of foods. Her experience includes several years as a private cook and as a proprietor of a catering company.

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