The Folio Book of Food and Drink

This anthology gathers extracts from fiction, essays, poems, and practical prose about cooking, eating, wine, and hospitality. Typical pieces describe a meal, a market, a kitchen disaster, a host's duties, or the taste of a particular dish, drawing on novelists, essayists, and a few professional cooks. Chapters group material by subject rather than by a single plot. There is no continuous narrator. The book is a literary miscellany of food and drink, not a recipe manual and not a social history written as one argument.

Quarter-bound in cloth with textured paper sides, blocked and printed with a design by Alice Pattullo.