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Peter Elbling.
The Food Taster.
London: Atlantic Books, 2005 (previously issued in US editions, 2002 & 2003).
ISBN 1843543699;
ISBN-13: 9781843543695.
Hardback, stitch bound.
134x204x27mm.
298pp.
English.
Good to very good condition.This item £2.50
[Publisher's price £9.99]
401g.Novel set in the perilous kitchens of a 16th-century Italian palace: "When Ugo DiFonte, a starving peasant, and his beautiful daughter Miranda are snatched from their farm by the despot Duke Federico, Ugo thinks things can't get any worse. He's wrong. The Duke orders Ugo to be his new food taster..."
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