Ebook: Gluttony: more is more

An amusing celebration of over-the-top enjoyment of food from ancient Roman dinner parties through inventive menus served in past Royal Banquet Halls and current gastronomic temples. The reader meets celebrated gourmands and gourmets and luscious as well as odd-sounding foods. With many menus and dozens of recipes (for example, for chocolate truffles covered with genuine gold) to give each of us a helping of the most popular sin.