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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

2 Presseschau-Absätze
Magazinrundschau 11.08.2002 […] Und mundet Betty Fussell ganz ausgezeichnet: "Serving up Gaston Bachelard with Lewis Carroll, Confucius with Montezuma, Pythagoras with a London sandwich man," schreibt Fussell über den genialischen Autor von "Near A Thousand Table", den Oxford-Historiker Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "he does more than dazzle by eclectic erudition: he undermines the cliches of our personal and cultural biases". […]
Magazinrundschau 12.08.2002 […] Joan Accocella hat sich lustvoll durch eine neue Kulturgeschichte des Essens gekämpft, "A History of Food" des in Oxford lehrenden Hispano-Briten Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Free Press): "The book belongs to that excellent British genre the 'brief history', in which a professor who nevertheless can write - the species survives in England - gives us a short, lively rundown on the subject without saying anything really new." […]