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Author_Madeleine Pelner Cosman
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EnglishBanquets
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FoodHistory
Foodlore
Medieval
MedievalRecipes
Product details
- ISBN 9780807608982
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 190 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2002
- Publisher: George Braziller Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Foods are cultural insignia. Few indicators define a people so well as its foodlore. Food taboos and food celebrations are important to a culture s notions of sacrament and sin, praise and punishment, deprivation and indulgence, vigilant discipline and sustained extravagance. Medieval England s courtly appetites for splendour are evident in cookery books, courtesy manuals, household and court documents, legal records, medieval texts, and in surprising profusion, in works of art ranging from marginalia of prayer books through literary romances.
This culinary excursion will introduce the English banquet hall, its furnishings, its table adornments, and its noble servitors. The 'art' of the kitchen is explored and the all important ingredients are scrutinised. The book concludes with over 100 recipes from medieval manuscripts.
This culinary excursion will introduce the English banquet hall, its furnishings, its table adornments, and its noble servitors. The 'art' of the kitchen is explored and the all important ingredients are scrutinised. The book concludes with over 100 recipes from medieval manuscripts.
Madeleine Pelner Cosman is Director of the Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the City College of City Universoty in New York
