Swedish television personality and food historian Edward Blom is a cook with a big personality and a big passion. This to his culinary kingdom! Blom’s expertise lies in the cultural history
of food, and inLife Is a Banquet he throws open the archives and invites all to indulgence in the excesses of yesteryear’s best recipes. These are Blom’s favorites, each enlivened with
his own personal slant.
Here is everything from the Bavarian Oktoberfest to the oysters of Grand Central Station, the tables of the nineteenth century elite to the precursor of the Smörgåsborg: the brännvinsbord.
All made with the motto: elegant and in excess.
Featuring 90 recipes, dazzling photographs, personal anecdotes, and highlights of culinary history,Life Is a Banquet is a cookbook like no other. Be amazed, be inspired, and be tempted
to make food history!
