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The Magic Harvest: Food, Folkore and Society
Piero Camporesi
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Description for The Magic Harvest: Food, Folkore and Society
Paperback. * Camporesi is one of Europea s most important and original historians of food and culture* This is a lively account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe* His previous book on a similar subject, The Bread of Dreams, was very widely reviewed; the present book should also receive a good deal of exposure. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBTB; JFC; JHBT; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
The Magic Harvest is a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe.
Focusing on Italy, Camporesi examines the social symbolism of food, and its associated rituals. He shows how the act of eating at weddings and seasonal feasts was seen as a metaphor for copulation; how Christmas and Easter were marked by special cakes rich in eggs, symbolizing renewal; how bread was viewed as a magic talisman against the forces of darkness; and how the harvest was regarded as the offspring of a fertile Earth which yielded up its fruits. All this rich and ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745621968
SKU
V9780745621968
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99-1
About Piero Camporesi
Piero Camporesi is Professor of Italien Literature at the University of Bologna.
Reviews for The Magic Harvest: Food, Folkore and Society
"The Magic Harvest is a concentrated broth of pieces every bit as rich as the cuisine that forms the focus of [Camporesi's] study. There is a convincing unity in these essays. Together, they offer a scholarly history of the slow shifts in the dietary geography and regimes of Italy to the present, a masterly display of the interdisciplinary skills food ... Read more