How long does it take to read The Oxford Companion to Food?
Alan Davidson
The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson takes about 16 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 53 minutes
A long haul
First published 2014. 921 pages, about 253,275 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Combining serious and meticulously researched fact with entertaining and witty commentary, it has been deemed unique by chefs and reviewers around the globe. It contains both a comprehensive catalogue of food stuffs--biscuits named after battles and divas; body parts from toe to cerebellum; breads from Asia to the Mediterranean--and a richly allusive account of the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookery books, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community ... There are entries on shifting concerns and attitudes such as convenience food, local food, and Mediterranean diet; new research on food and drugs, genetics, obesity, medicine; new trends such as foraging, fusion food, low temperature cooking; new cultural and sociological insights on topics such as etiquette, gastronomy, and food photography; and numerous entries on people of special significance within the world of food; among them Clarence Birdseye, Henri Nestle, and Louis Pasteur."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Food, Food habits, Cooking, Encyclopedias
