Feast Your Eyes on Food An Encyclopedia of More than 1,000 Delicious Things to Eat

by Gladwin, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781419752865
• ISBN10: 1419752863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-10-26
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Fall in love with food with Laura Gladwin’s Feast Your Eyes on Food, a family compendium that celebrates the variety and abundance of more than 1,000 delicious things to eat from all over the world, featuring illustrations by Zoe Barker.

Learn how the Italians revolutionized flour and water as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes. Discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry, and marvel at nature’s ingenuity as you take a bite from 18 varieties of apples and pears.

Split into digestible chapters, this visual guide explores the journey from farm to table, letting you taste your way around the world from the comfort of your home.

“A visual treat for browsers, chefs, and foodies.” —Booklist
“Aspiring foodies will slowly devour this beautifully illustrated, oversized compilation of food-related facts and insight.” —School Library Journal

Author Biography

Laura Gladwin trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London's biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for hundreds of events. She now works as a writer and editor specializing in food and drink, writing for The Good Food Guide and editing high-profile cookbooks for chefs including Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi, and Heston Blumenthal. She lives in London.