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Mitchell Beazley has acquired the first book of Killian Fox, editor and co-founder of The Gannet, an online magazine that explores people's lives through the food they cook and eat.
The book, The Gannet’s Gastronomic Miscellany, will be published in hardback this October priced £10. Stephanie Jackson, Octopus publishing director, acquired world rights in all languages from Jon Elek at United Agents/AP Watt.
The Gannet's Gastronomic Miscellany will be a collection of "fascinating, funny and unexpected" facts about food and drink, as well as tips and anecodotes, from the worst jobs in kitchen history to seriously niche cookbooks, the politics of food emojis to Liberace’s recipe for shish kebabs. It will ask why the Vatican City drinks more wine per person than any other country on earth and list millennia-old products that are still edible today.
Jackson said the book would be the perfect gift for foodies this Christmas. "As a fan of The Gannet from its very beginnings, I’m thrilled to be publishing what promises to be THE food-lover’s gift this Christmas. Entertaining, engaging, eccentric and unexpected, this distinctive collection of stories and snippets from the hugely admired Killian Fox & co will be beautifully packaged and completely irresistible. Think Schott’s 2.0, with bells on."
Fox commented: "This book has been a joy to write. It’s sent me to every corner of the food world in search of incredible stories and gems of information. Every page has yielded something unexpected and the whole process has made me understand food in a new way. Working on it with Stephanie and the team has been a delight from start to finish."