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Food in Medieval Times (Food through History)

Food in Medieval Times (Food through History)

zoom enlarge 		Author: Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1224501

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.1

ISBN: 0313321477
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.300940902
EAN: 9780313321474
ASIN: 0313321477

Publication Date: October 30, 2004
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Product Description
New light is shed on everyday life in the Middle Ages in Great Britain and continental Europe through this unique survey of its food culture. Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and celebrated, and what restrictions they followed for health and faith reasons. Fascinating information is provided, such as on imitation food, kitchen humor, and medical ideas. Many period recipes and quotations flesh out the narrative. The book draws on a variety of period sources, including as literature, account books, cookbooks, religious texts, archaeology, and art. Food was a status symbol then, and sumptuary laws defined what a person of a certain class could eat--the ingredients and preparation of a dish and how it was eaten depended on a person's status, and most information is available on the upper crust rather than the masses. Equalizing factors might have been religious strictures and such diseases as the bubonic plague, all of which are detailed here.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great for beginners   June 14, 2006
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

If Scully, Henisch, Bober and Flandrin are household words in your kitchen, you can skip this book and miss little. If you're just beginning to enjoy medieval cookery, and would like to get the "big picture" this is the perfect introduction.
It's not a cookbook -- it's a survey of what foods were used, how they were prepared, and how they were understood to work in the body. The author has sifted through the works of medieval cooks and those who have translated and studied them, and brings us the essence of medieval cookery in a very readable form. She is careful to distinguish between the foods of the elite and the poor. She discusses regional variations as well as the many international foods. Influences of both religion and medieval science (humoral theory) on eating habits are well discussed.
Extensive bibliographic notes will aid the reader in finding the sources of her information.

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