Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany - Hardcover

Schott, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582344205 ISBN 13: 9781582344201

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2004

Synopsis

From the author of the international bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany, the new collection of vital irrelevance and uncommon knowledge from the worlds of food and drink.
The eponymous foods, famous last meals, and perfect martini proportions revealed in the bestselling Schott's Original Miscellany were only the tip of the iceberg: Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany is a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles from the culinary world. From food history to cooking terms, cocktail recipes to dining etiquette, grace before meals to after-dinner toasts-this olla podrida offers everything for the wine drinker, gastronome, and glutton. And Ben Schott's brilliant juxtaposition of delectable tidbits makes this new miscellany so hard to put down, it may even make you late for dinner.
Ben Schott is a photographer, designer, and Miscellanist. He lives in Highgate, London.
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About the Author

Ben Schott is a photographer, designer, and miscellanist. He lives in Highgate, London.

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FORMAL MEAL TIMES
C19th servants were expected to serve meals according to these rules:

Announced time Actual Time
6 o'clock...............................7 o'clock
6 o'clock precisely.....................6.30 o'clock
No later than 6 o'clock.................6 o'clock

DELIA SMITH ON MICROWAVES
I truly have tried ... and we had a microwave to heat things in [during] the filming - but actually, we mainly used it to keep the ashtrays in. I think it takes the soul out of food. - The Times, 1990

THE OSLO BREAKFAST
Norway's 'Oslo Breakfast' was an attempt in 1929 to improve the health of schoolchildren, who were given the following free meal each morning:
1/2 pint milk. wholemeal bread. cheese. 1/2 orange. 1/2 apple
a dose of cod-liver oil (September-March)

MR BURN'S LUNCH
Montgomery 'Monty' Burns, wizened plutocratic owner of Springfield's nuclear plant, gives Homer Simpson his antiquarian luncheon order:
'...a single pillow of Shredded Wheat, some steamed toast, and a dodo egg.'

THE TEMPERAMENT OF COOKS
It should also be remembered that an ill-tempered man can never succeed as a master in the culinary art, since the derangement of his gastric juices destroys the peculiar excellence which should govern his palate: it leaves it vitiated and tasteless.
- Charles Pierce, The Household Manager 1862

SOME QUOTATIONS ON SMOKING
RUDYARD KIPLING ... a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke

COLETTE When a wife can purchase her husband the right cigars, their relationship is blessed.

SHERLOCK HOLMES It is quite a three-pipe problem...

WINSTON CHURCHILL I always carry Cuba in my mouth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1582344205
• ISBN 13: 9781582344201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 158