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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Rubrik: Magazinrundschau - 2 Presseschau-Absätze
Magazinrundschau 12.08.2002 […] you put it in your mouth, it's game over." Joan Accocella hat sich lustvoll durch eine neue Kulturgeschichte des Essens gekämpft, "A History of Food" des in Oxford lehrenden Hispano-Briten Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Free Press): "The book belongs to that excellent British genre the 'brief history', in which a professor who nevertheless can write - the species survives in England - gives us a short, lively […]
Magazinrundschau 11.08.2002 […] Bachelard with Lewis Carroll, Confucius with Montezuma, Pythagoras with a London sandwich man," schreibt Fussell über den genialischen Autor von "Near A Thousand Table", den Oxford-Historiker Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "he does more than dazzle by eclectic erudition: he undermines the cliches of our personal and cultural biases". Und er bringt Erstaunliches zusammen: "After proposing that fire-cooked food […]