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Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History

✍️ Satin, Morton
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🏛 Prometheus Books 📅 2007 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781591025146

📝 Description: Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History

Both a fascinating glimpse into history from a unique angle and an authoritative reference work on food safety, this engrossing narrative offers entertaining and informative reading.

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Morton Satin delivers an engrossing narrative that functions as both a fascinating glimpse into history and an authoritative reference work on food safety. The prose is informative and entertaining, making complex food science accessible to a general audience. However, casual readers looking for traditional recipes, culinary techniques, or lighthearted kitchen memoirs will not find them here. This book is strictly for those drawn to the darker, more academic side of gastronomy and historical contingency. If you prefer your culinary reading strictly appetizing and free of scientific rigor, this title may not suit your tastes.
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Morton Satin delivers an engrossing narrative that functions as both a fascinating glimpse into history and an authoritative reference work on food safety. The prose is informative and entertaining, making complex food science accessible to a general audience. However, casual readers looking for traditional recipes, culinary techniques, or lighthearted kitchen memoirs will not find them here. This book is strictly for those drawn to the darker, more academic side of gastronomy and historical contingency. If you prefer your culinary reading strictly appetizing and free of scientific rigor, this title may not suit your tastes.

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