Aggressive pickles, inept nursery food, hostile saturated fats, and intentful carbohydrates--these are but a few of the foods in Lanchester's winter pantry. He begins, "Winston Churchill was fond of saying that the Chinese ideogram for "crisis" is composed of two characters which separately mean "danger" and "opportunity." And so Tarquin, Lancaster's Francophone Englishman, begins the story of his life via food and menus. Tarquin, it turns out, is as sinister as saturated fats. This is a great gift for the gourmand, glutton, or avid cook on your gift list. On the other hand, it would probably make an anorexic turn green.
This is a stated first edition from Henry Holt. It is an as new book in an as new unclipped broadart jacket. Jacket has a window that reveals a luscious peach on the front board. No marks of any kind. It is an unread copy.
