Looking for Theophrastus by Laura Beatty covers Nigella's wisdom about food and

Nigella's wisdom about food and life comes to the fore

couldn't come up with any of the perfectly-formed one-liners that populate Marina Hyde's hilarious writing

Mayors and Maharajas - all cross his path

And in 2093

A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it

Looking for Theophrastus by Laura Beatty covers Nigella's wisdom about food andWho is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he invented Botany. The character of the Wife of Bath is his invention, the Canterbury Tales as a whole, perhaps, the product of his inspiration. When Linnaeus was developing our modern system of plant taxonomy, it was Theophrastus' work on plants that he used as a basis. So how could one man do so much and