Food in Early Modern England
Phases, Fads, Fashions, 1500-1760
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:20th May '09
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What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much? This book answers to these questions. It explores changes in the English diet and the specific differences between each generation. It challenges the assumption that ordinary folk ate dull and monotonous meals.This book explores changes in the English diet and the specific differences between each generation. What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much? Our knowledge is mostly superficial on such commonplace routines, but this book digs deep and finds surprising answers to these questions. We learn that food fads and fashions resembled those of our own day. Commercial, scientific and intellectual movements were closely entwined with changing attitudes and dealings about food. In short, food holds a mirror to a lively world of cultural change stretching from the Renaissance to the industrial Revolution. This book also strongly challenges the assumption that ordinary folk ate dull and monotonous meals.
"Sit back, dip in and enjoy these feasts of evidence and story-telling." The Times Higher Education Supplement "Everyone serious about food should read this wonderful book, for inspiration no less than enjoyment. It is thanks to books like this that we can expand our own range." The Spectator"
ISBN: 9780826442338
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 660g
424 pages
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