Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany

London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003. No other cookbook will tell you how to cook a swan (and why you aren't allowed to); how Hemingway liked to mix his Martinis; why asparagus makes your urine smell; or the most sensible way to order popcorn at the cinema. Which other food-guide will tell you how to read your tea leaves; the best way to blow smoke-rings; the arcane methodology of the Japanese tea ceremony; how to raise a toast in Romania; what a giant waterbug tastes like; or how to cook the Monster Egg? Where else, other than this book, will you stumble across that Harold Wilson thought about tinned food; why Zeus slept on a bed of saffron; the real Captain Birdseye; final meals on death row; or the elaborate ritual of the Locing Cup? Illustrations. 159 pp.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.