Much Depends on Dinner
The extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos, of an ordinary meal

Before it became fashionable to think about what's on your plate, this author wrote a brilliant, extensively researched book in a trope it's as unforgettable as your phone number. Take the most simple meal you can imagine - one composed of 9 ingredients like salt or butter that you never think about......more

Some people have sometimes said I think about things too much... Analyze them too much, over-think them, look for so much deeper layers and meanings and cause and effect than there need be in any given thing. I can certainly see the Zen beauty in seeing each thing of and for itself, without looking d......more

It's hard to imagine now how revolutionary books like this were back when Much Depends on Dinner was published in 1986. It was barely conceivable then that someone would write a book, an actual book about something so ordinary as a meal of corn on the cob with butter and salt, chicken, lettuce wit......more

Here is a beguiling concept - let's discuss 9 parts of dinner in great detail! The author, M Visser, obviously put a great deal of elbow grease into this book. There is information upon information. It is trivia on steroids. But it reads that way: an assemblage of interesting notes. Each paragraph is......more