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Einstein's Beets (Hardcover)
[Buy it!] | Alexander Theroux | USD 40.11
(Sat Jun 1 03:15:06 2024) | AbebooksAU | AussieBookSeller | ISBN10: 1606999761, ISBN13: 9781606999769, [publisher: Fantagraphics, Seattle] Hardcover Hardcover. Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and all lumpy stuff. Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Alexander Therouxs Einsteins Beets is a study of the world of food and food aversions. The novelist and poet probes the secret and mysterious attitudes of hundreds of people mostly famous and well-known toward eating and dining out, hilariously recounting tales of confrontation and scandalous alienation: it contains gossip, confession, embarrassment, and perceptive observations. 08 02 Does the world need an 800-page book on food phobias, as well as dislikes, simple preferences, aversions, obsessions, squeamishness, food fetishes, fixations, fashions, snobbery, and inverted snobbery? Simple answer: Damn right it does and with Theroux at the helm, you cant help wondering why it wasnt a thousand, two thousand pages long. This is a prose nonfiction book about food and food aversions throughout history. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
[Truganina, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 2017]
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