false 363969 5 Lust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen's <I>In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods</I> offers a high-spirited look at the way foods over time have been forbidden, even criminalized, for their "evil" effects. Food has often been, shockingly, morally weighted, from the tomato, originally called the love apple and thought to excite lust; to the potato, whose popularity in Ireland led British Protestants to associate it with sloth; to foods like corn or bread whose use was once believed to delineate "lowness," thus inflaming class pride. Allen's approach to this incredible history also includes tales of personal journeys to, for example, a Mount Athos monastery, where a monk reveals the sign of Satan in an apple, and to San Francisco to investigate dog eating. If his history is sometimes too glancing and facetious, even beyond the sensible need to entertain, it is always fascinating.<p> The book also features "forbidden" menus--such as the one devoted to gluttony that includes an entire steer stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a chicken, and served with sausages--and quite doable and delicious recipes, such as a dynamite hot and sweet banana ketchup and Lo Han Jai, a mushroom-replete vegetarian feast. But the real focus is on the human response to a primal pleasure--eating--and the way people have sought to control it, in every society and every culture, through prohibition. It's quite a tale. <I>--Arthur Boehm</I> 354039 2002 In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food total:123|5:24|4:47|3:39|2:13|1:0| 123 451 217 22 3 1 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Dec 21 05:53:26 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 05:55:36 -0800 2007 NPR piece from January 2004.

Allen uses the seven deadly sins as the structure for a discussion on foods both irresistible and forbidden, beginning with a fanciful menu for each section. Not surprisingly, the Lust chapter discusses ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jul 04 13:34:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 13:49:18 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 15:02:29 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 16:22:21 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 19 19:26:22 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 16:53:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 19:25:54 -0700 2007 Vegetarians be warned: some passages will churn you...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 26 16:28:48 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 17:24:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 26 13:28:23 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 13:28:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 03 08:43:31 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 10:21:01 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue May 27 12:46:06 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 15:49:11 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Apr 22 06:53:34 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 06:56:07 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Mar 29 07:29:22 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 07:31:55 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 24 07:56:23 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 07:56:23 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Apr 10 18:12:35 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 16:01:59 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 24 21:35:58 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 05:57:57 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 14:09:09 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 08:55:55 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 10 15:49:21 -0700 2007 Mon May 21 15:33:31 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 10:37:32 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 10:38:36 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Sep 10 21:08:48 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 21:09:09 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sun Sep 30 12:34:41 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 12:35:19 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun Sep 07 16:31:18 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 06 23:44:30 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 23 23:39:50 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 23:40:08 -0700 2008