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Article: THE OXFORD COMPANION TO FOOD.(Review)
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- Geographical
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- February 1, 2000
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THE OXFORD COMPANION TO FOOD by Alan Davidson (Oxford University Press, hb pp865 40.00 [pounds sterling])
To say that this latest addition to the Oxford Companion series is about food is something of an understatement. Instead, this vast, encyclopaedic tome takes the reader on an exotic, colourful, fragrant, and mouthwatering voyage around the globe. "Food" is a far too banal, two-dimensional word to describe the passion for the world's different cuisine's that author, Alan Davidson, has invested in this exhaustive survey of what people eat. What's more, over 865 pages, he also manages to be consistently amusing, no mean achievement in what could have been a ...
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Article: AUTHOR ALAN DAVIDSON WINS THE ERASMUS PRIZE
The Boston Globe;
January 15, 2003 ;
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... ... that it has selected the British food writer and publisher Alan Davidson, 79, to receive the 2003 Erasmus Prize. The prize, which ... gathered three decades of research into one volume, the Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford, 1999), considered by many to be the ...
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