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A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age
Kumin Beat
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Description for A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age
Hardback. "A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions."-- Num Pages: 6 pages. BIC Classification: JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the mainstay of the general population, elite tastes shifted from Renaissance opulence toward the greater simplicity and elegance of dining à la française. At the same time, growing spatial mobility and urbanization boosted the demand for professional cooking and commercial catering. An unprecedented wealth of artistic, literary and medical discourses on food and ... Read more
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the mainstay of the general population, elite tastes shifted from Renaissance opulence toward the greater simplicity and elegance of dining à la française. At the same time, growing spatial mobility and urbanization boosted the demand for professional cooking and commercial catering. An unprecedented wealth of artistic, literary and medical discourses on food and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857850263
SKU
V9780857850263
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Kumin Beat
Beat Kümin is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe and the editor of The European World: An Introduction to Early Modern History.
Reviews for A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age
[T]he six volumes of A Cultural History of Food provide an enlightening and fascinating insight into the history of food and its development throughout history in an authoritative and accessible style.
Louise Ellis-Barrett
Social Sciences
Louise Ellis-Barrett
Social Sciences