Feast : a history of grand eating
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Type of record: Book
Title: Feast : a history of grand eating
Classmark: Cookery Bateman A/STR
Creator(s): Strong, Roy C
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2002
Language: English
Size and medium: xvii, 349 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/430415
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005395859705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Toenails cut while dining, meals served to wax effigies of the dead, napkins concealing singing birds, dishes descending from the ceiling - these are just a few of the more exotic aspects of everyman at table. From the stupendous banquets of the Ancient Babylonians, Feast covers five millennia of formal eating." "Feast offers a fascinating and, at times, highly unusual mirror of society. It gathers together for the first time all the ingredients which contributed to the phenomenon of the celebratory meal: the people, the clothes, the food, the setting, the action and its circumstances. In an age which has virtually abolished the shared meal as a central feature of daily living, Feast presents a revelatory picture of a world we have lost. Beautifully illustrated, it traces fashions in food and the etiquette of eating, taking the reader from the elegancies of the Roman villa to the austerities of the monastic refectory, from the splendours of the Renaissance banquet to the rigours of the
Victorian dinner party."--Book Jacket.
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