Food Mania: An Extraordinary Visual R

"Food Mania" is a celebration of culinary matters with images documenting all its delights, from growing food to its presentation at the table. It shows kitchen gardens, tea plantations, markets, bakers and brewers; the still-life of the larder, with every kind of foodstuff and ingredient, and the frenzy of the kitchen, complete with utensils. There are scenes of 18th-century banqueting excess, and Art Deco illustrations of "polite" society, the details of crockery, cutlery and menu cards.

Nigel Garwood and Rainer Voigt are leading international authorities on the literature of gastronomy.