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File Format | PDF
File Size | 1.22 MB
Pages | 284
Language | English
Category | Social History
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Description: 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.
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Food in Medieval Times
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