How about a couple of special holiday half-hours with Sally Placksin, hostess of What's the Word? as she browses everything from soup to nuts in food-themed literature? Produced by the Modern Language Association and heard on over two hundred stations, What's the Word? is the perfect condiment for your turkey-day programming spread.
In literature, feasts -- from modest to grand and sumptuous -- often serve as central or pivotal events. Savor Isak Dinesen's short story, Babette's Feast; Laura Esqavel's novel, Like Water for Chocolate; and Ben Jonson's poem, Inviting a Friend to Supper.
Lavish culinary illustrations transport us to faraway places...classic cookbooks are cultural artifacts of their time and place and volumes with stories engross as much as novels do...we'll serve up the Victorian classic, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, Verta Mae Grosvener's Vibration Cooking; and cookbook reviewer Sukey Howard investigates what contemporary cookbooks offer -- in addition to recipes!
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