From sourcing and butchering to dry ageing and curing
**As seen on Channel 4's What Not to Eat**This ground-breaking exploration debunks food myths
from Socrates to Ai Weiwei
and frothy 3-D babyccino animals
our best qualities become our worst: courage turns to foolhardiness
The Diaries of Felix Platter : Coming of Age in the Renaissance - Stephen Greenblatt Pages:176 pages, Illustrations From sourcing and butchering toThe wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth century medical student. In 1552, sixteen year old Felix Platter left Basel, Switzerland, and journeyed 370 miles to Montpelier, France to study medicine. His journals chronicle five astonishing years of youth in a time of plague, war, and awakening. A Protestant in a Catholic kingdom, Felix witnessed blood chilling executions and engaged in secret religious discussions with his landlord, a