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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Massimo Montanari |
ISBN: | 0631202838 9780631202837 0631182659 9780631182658 |
OCLC Number: | 35759777 |
Description: | xii, 214 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. The basis for a common language -- The age of famine -- Barbarians and Romans -- The meat of the strong -- The bread (and the wine) of God -- Feasting and fasting -- Terra et silva -- The colour of bread -- Using nature -- 2. The turning-point -- A forced choice -- Power and privilege -- Give us this day our daily bread -- The throat of the city -- To eat much and well -- Gastronomy and famine -- 3. To each his own -- The return of hunger -- A carnivorous Europe -- A meatless diet -- A question of quality -- A table to admire -- The abundance of the poor -- 4. Europe and the world -- A wonderful land beyond the sea -- New players -- Bread and meat -- Bourgeois ferocity -- The two Europes -- Changing tastes -- Old and new drugs -- 5. The century of hunger -- Does history repeat itself -- The hard-fought rise of maize -- The potato, between agronomy and policy -- Macaroni eaters -- Population and nutrition -- The evils of meat -- 6. The revolution -- A reversal of trends -- Meat redux -- All the world's a city -- A food for all seasons -- Pleasure, health and beauty. |
Series Title: | Making of Europe. |
Other Titles: | Fame e l'abbondanza. |
Responsibility: | Massimo Montanari ; translated by Carl Ipsen. |
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"Massimo Montanari has sliced through the evidence of anecdotes, novellas, dietary tracts and demographic surveys to show the close and often surprising connections between food as precarious necessity and food as symbol of power, culture and social ambition." Times Literary Supplement Read more...
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- Food -- History.
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