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Imagine the River Tiber as an alimentary tract. Picture a hungry saint. Think of erotic Renaissance fruit paintings, transubstantiation and a tiramisu café where magic issurelyon the menu... This highly original interpretation of Rome's history, culture, art and religion takes the form of a book about food that's not really about food at all. During his first two years in Rome, David Winner found himself in turn amazed and overwhelmed by its physical, historical and cultural vastness. Then a chance encounter with an extraordinary pudding provided him with the means to start digesting his surroundings. That evening he was struck by the significance of the Roman attitude to food: a unique and unequivocal relationship between sustenance and existence, where every last aspect of life is (and always has been)'pickled in alimentation'. In Al DenteWinner takes us on a stroll through the city as he muses idiosyncratically on all things comestible and much else besides. Here we learn about Rome as metropolis and necropolis, about tasty vineyard snails and the food-and-sex scandal that sent Saint Jerome packing. The cinematic greats such as Argento, Fellini and Ferreri are discussed alongsid

Author

David Winner

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Ltd : [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] Jonathan Ball Publishers SA : [distributor] Simon & Schuster

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857208811

Subjects

Travel, Cooking, Lifestyle

Rating

4.5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14