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Food in Medieval Times
Melitta Weiss Adamson
Hardcover - $117.95
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, ...
Hometown Appetites : The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
Kelly Alexander
Hardcover - $43.95
In the Devil's Garden : A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
Stewart Lee Allen
Paperback - $23.95
Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages--and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world.
From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of E ...
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections : Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
Robert Appelbaum
Hardcover - $53.95
We didn’ t always eat the way we do today. It was only at the advent of the early modern period that people stopped eating with their hands from trenchers of bread and started using forks and plates, that lords stopped inviting scores of neighb ...
Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
Pellegrino Artusi
Paperback - $69.95
First published in 1891, Pelegrino Artusi's La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangiar bene has come to be recognized as the most significant Italian cookbook of modern times. It was reprinted thirteen times and had sold more than 52,000 copies in the ...
The Forgotten Art of Building and Using a Brick Bake Oven : How to Date, Renovate or Use an Existing Brick Oven, or to Construct a New One.
Richard M. Bacon
Paperback - $21.95
First published by Yankee Magazine in 1977, this book remains the authority on how old-time brick ovens were designed and used. The book explains the evolution of the brick oven from the 17th through the 19th centuries, out lines the basic points to ...
Land of Milk and Honey : Travels in the History of Indian Food
Chitrita Banerji
Hardcover - $53.95
A culture as ancient as India's, as layered and as plural, inevitably rejoices in a fascinatingly rich history of food, feeding and eating. The most ancient scriptures prescribe and proscribe on the subject, life cycle rituals are intricately bound u ...