Begun in 1976, published in 1999, 'there were to be no recipes, and there are none', instead, an egalitarian encyclopedia that stops a moment before genetically modified foods; organised alphabetically: aardvark ('truly one of a kind, it has no relations') to zucchini ('only became prominent in the twentieth century'), and illustrated by Soun Vannithone; 865pp. plus bibliography and index. Fine in dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 52373

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Title: The Oxford Companion to Food

Publisher: Oxford University Press. First English edition, Oxford

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover/Hardback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: book

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