Four Must-Reads for the Serious (or Not-So-Serious) Foodie, Part 3

About this course:

This course features four novels which may have escaped your notice. Sarah Murry’s Moveable Feasts traces the complex journey some foods have travelled over time to get to our table. Silvano Serventi and Françoise Sabban’s Pasta is, among other things, the final word on the debate as to whether China or India invented pasta. Andrew F. Smith’s Eating History explores how historic events, inventions and individuals have defined American cuisine. Examples include the Erie Canal, the shocking reason for inventing the Graham cracker, and Julie Child. Nichola Fletcher’s Charlemagne’s Tablecloth offers stories about fabled historic feasts, notably that of the Holy Roman Emperor who would whip off the tablecloth at the end of a feast and toss it into a blazing fire, and then—to everyone’s amazement--retrieve it intact, cleansed of all manner of food and wine spills. A world-wide feast of culinary illuminations.