Feast Your Eyes on Food: An Encyclopedia of More Than 1,000 Delicious Things to Eat - Hardcover

by Laura Gladwin (Author)

Fall in love with food with this family compendium that celebrates the variety and abundance of more than 1,000 delicious things to eat from all over the world

Learn how the Italians revolutionized flour and water as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes. Discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry, and marvel at nature's ingenuity as you take a bite from 18 varieties of apples and pears. Split into digestible chapters, this visual guide explores the journey from farm-to-table, letting you taste your way around the world from the comfort of your home.

Author Biography

Laura Gladwin trained at Leith's School of Food and Wine before working as a freelance chef. She then spent five years at one of London's biggest party design companies, where she devised spectacular cocktail lists for hundreds of events. She now works as a writer and editor specializing in food and drink, writing for The Good Food Guide and editing high-profile cookbooks for chefs including Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi, and Heston Blumenthal. She lives in London. Zoe Barker is an illustrator gifted with powers of visual trickery, using watercolor washes and intricately textured graphite to create portraits, still lifes, and character designs that convey impressive visual depth. She lives in Norwich, England, and her clients include Soho House, Ralph Lauren, and Liberty of London.