Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Testicles: Balls in Cooking and Culture

Testicles: Balls in Cooking and Culture

Vie, Blandine

Paperback

Food Writing

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1903018838
ISBN13: 9781903018835
Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Runner-up in the Society of Authors' Scott-Moncrieff Prize for Giles MacDonogh's translation from the French Winner of the Prix Litteraire de la Commanderie des Gastronomes Ambassadeurs de Rungis Shortlisted for Gourmand Magazine's award for best translation This is a translation of a book first published in France in 2005 with the addition of some material concerning how/where to buy the product in Britain. It is part cookery book, part dictionary and part cultural study of testicles: human and animal. Their culinary use is the bedrock, although it would be impossible to ignore the wider implications of these anatomical jewels. The book opens with a discussion of balls, of pairs, of virility and the general significance thereof; it then gives an account of culinary use of testicles, in history and across cultures. There follows a recipe section that ranges the continents in search of good dishes, from lamb's fry with mushrooms, to balls with citrus fruit, to the criadillas beloved of bullfighters, and Potatoes Leontine, stuffed with cocks' stones. To close, there is an extensive dictionary or glossary, drawing on many languages, which illustrates the linguistic richness that attaches to this anatomical part.

Also in

Food Writing

View All