Benjamin Franklin on the Art of Eating

A Special Limited Edition to Celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's Birth. The accidental discovery in the Franklin Papers of a set of cooking recipes & the many allusions to food scattered through Ben Franklin's various works & letters have led to an inquiry the results of which may throw some new light on a little studied aspect of the Sage of Philadelphia. This concise book, a special edition of the 1958 original, contains an essay on Benjamin Franklin On the Art of EatingÓ by Gilbert Chinard; a collection of Franklin's Rules [for Eating] & RecipesÓ; & an introduction by Roy Goodman, assistant librarian & curator of printed materials at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). Illustrations.Franklin, Benjamin is the author of 'Benjamin Franklin on the Art of Eating', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422380086 and ISBN 1422380084.