Sandwich : A Global History

Author: Bee Wilson

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  • : $25.95 AUD
  • : 9781861897718
  • : Reaktion Books
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  • : 31 August 2010
  • : 197mm X 120mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Hardback
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Description

The first book-length history of a seemingly humble food, the sandwich, in which Bee Wilson unravels the mystery of how the Fourth Earl of Sandwich could have 'invented' this most elementary and appealing way of eating.

Author description

Bee Wilson is a historian and journalist who writes for the London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Intelligent Life, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times and The New York Times. She writes a weekly food column for The Sunday Telegraph, 'The Kitchen Thinker', for which she received the Guild of Food Writers Food Journalist of the Year award in 2004, 2008 and 2009.