From the mind that bought you Schott's Original Miscellany comes a collection of vital irrelevance and uncommon knowledge surrounding the worlds of food and drink.

Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany is a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles (in both senses of the word) - from food history to cooking terms; cocktail recipes to dining etiquette; grace before meals to after dinner toasts.

Which other food book can tell you the accepted procedure when drinking from a Loving Cup; which potatoes are best for mashing; how to fold your napkins into a variety of pleasing shapes; the correct technique for lighting a cigar; or how to make the legendary 'Monster Egg'?

Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany offers all of this - and more. It will inform you of the King who fed fois gras to his dog; the feast where guests ate in fear of their lives; the socialite who spiked his punch with benzedrine; and the dining club whose members ate their meals in reverse.

An Oolla podrida of all that is pertinent to wining, dining, and socialising, Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany offers everything for the food-lover, wine-drinker, gastronome and glutton.

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