Lang's Compendium of Culinary Nonsense and Trivia (1980)

by George Lang

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
George Lang	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Glaser, Milton	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Safire, William	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Lang's Compendium of Culinary Nonsense and Trivia

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1980

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Culinary history is a collection of quiestionable
happenings, recorded by persons of dubious
credibility; about events no one cares about
and people of no consequence.
-------anonymous twentieth-century compendium writer

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Gratitude (and all sorts of credit) should go
to my associate of a decade, Adele Rodgers,
to whom this little book is dedicated.

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An entertaining collection of fascinating facts, anecdotes, definitions, and other whimsical information on the delectable world of food ranges from folk medicines and aphrodisiac foods to the origin of culinary expressions and stories about renowned gourmets.

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