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Author:   Blandine Vie ,  Giles MacDonogh
Publisher:   Prospect Books
Imprint:   Prospect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781903018835

ISBN 10:   1903018838
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 September 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Having a Ball and a Little Mythology of Testicles. Admissible evidence: a little anatomy. TESTICULTURAL FOREPLAY: Myths and legends; A Swinging Life; Biblical Undergarments; The Sporran: a little Scots Purse designed to conceal that which you are not supposed to see; The Naming of Parts - the Great Taboo; The Hidden Taste of Words; The Koran's idea of heaven. A SHORT ETYMOLOGY: Testicles - Pope Joan's Balls; Cullions; Purses; Euphemistic and Prudish Expressions; The Symbolism of Silence: Are they Things or not?; All or nothing?; Less than nothing and 'non sunt'; Scientific terms; Common and facetious nicknames; The Symbolism of Numbers; One - better than nothing but hardly Christian; Two, and binary symbolism; Three?; Metaphors; Knackers; Do you know you have lovely nuts?; Epicurean Metaphors; Metonyms: when the container becomes the contents; Hangers and other baubles; Musical instruments, big dongs and little clanging dongers; Accessories and old friends; Testicles and Virility - Hopeful Italians, Initiation Belgian style; Words to evoke value; Superlatives. SWEET NOTHINGS: Reproductive Organs - Saints Cullions; Castration - Trophy; Symbols and Myths relating to testicles in the Kitchen; The Orgies of Ancient Rome - A Brace of Balls for Castor and Pollux; Rabelaisian repasts; Court Diners and the High Water Mark of Testicles; The Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - Sex and gastronomy hang together; The Rise and Fall of a common dish - La Pena criadillas: the Society for Knacker Noshers; Conclusion. WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS THAT FEATURE 'THEM': A few bollockings; The Odd One Out; Ballsy vowels; Balls-ups; Kool - Francoise Sagan's minty fags; A hermaphrodite Porsche; The Hazards of Criadillas; The Rockingham China or how to achieve Golden Balls; Testi - cucul - es/A Stupid Pillock; Your bollocks or your life; Politically Correct; A few spoonerisms drawn from a massive anthology. THE UNDERBELLY OF CULINARY CURIOSITY: Fry, criadillas, gonads, white kidneys and other little 'things'. LEXICON OF ANATOMICAL, CULINARY AND FANTASTIC TERMS TO DESCRIBE EDIBLE TESTICLES: In other tongues; A little supplementary vocabulary; For a better understanding of - things!; Castration - castrating rams, castrating cocks, castrating cocks (second version); A little savoir-faire; A description; Lambs' fry or rams' purses; Kids' balls; Slabs, gonads or criadillas from a bull or a calf; Foals' testicles; The fry of a boar pig or a piglet; Wild boars' balls; Cocks' testes; Skinning them prior to cooking them; Protocol; Lambs' fry or rams' purses; Criadillas; Wild boars' balls - Deep-freezing fry drying and cooking fry in batter; Cock's testes. RECIPES: Lambs fry or rams' purses; Kids' balls; Slabs, gonads or criadillas from a bull or a calf; Wild boars' balls; Cock's testes; Just this once - it is going to be a bollocks in the end!; Cocktail; The recipe as testicle tease; The deceptive recipe; The recipe that begins as a balls-up; Magic recipes. APPENDIX: Lexicon of words to designate male testicles.

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After qualifying as an art historian, Blandine Vie turned to writing about food in all its aspects. She has written more than a hundred books on many different topics, from cooking for your baby, to making jam, to one hundred recipes for seduction, the cookery of love, using spices in the kitchen, cooking eels, and cooking with cheese. Blandine Vie lives in Paris.

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