The Fine Art of Food – Reay Tannahill (1968)

S$32.00

The Fine Art of Food – Reay Tannahill (1968)

S$32.00

Title: The Fine Art of Food

Author: Reay Tannahill

Publisher: Folio Society, 1968.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. A tall, slim book, measuring about 10″x7″. In excellent condition. With numerous in-text illustrations.

A short, informative history of food through literature and art. In this book, historian Reay Tannahill travels through history from Sumer and Egypt to Greece and Rome, India and China, and Europe. With lovely illustrations that include black-and-white maps, paintings from the masters, photographs, wood engravings and so on.