Life Is a Banquet: A Food Lover’s Treasury of Recipes, by Edward Blom

By Edward Blom

Swedish tv character and nutrition historian Edward Blom is a cook dinner with an enormous character and an incredible ardour. This to his culinary nation! Blom’s services lies within the cultural heritage of nutrition, and in Life Is a Banquet he throws open the data and invitations all to indulgence within the excesses of yesteryear’s most sensible recipes. those are Blom’s favorites, every one enlivened along with his personal own slant.

Here is every little thing from the Bavarian Oktoberfest to the oysters of Grand valuable Station, the tables of the 19th century elite to the precursor of the Smörgåsborg: the brännvinsbord. All made with the motto: stylish and in excess.

Featuring ninety recipes, incredible pictures, own anecdotes, and highlights of culinary heritage, Life Is a Banquet is a cookbook like no different. Be surprised, be encouraged, and be tempted to make nutrition history!

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