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Food & Cooking

1900

Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia
Bottero, Jean
The discovery of three cuneiform tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection a few years ago pushed our knowledge of ancient cuisine back a further two thousand years. Containing almost forty recipes, the tablets provide important insights into the culinary ...
Hardback. Price GB £15.50

Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food
Allen, John S.
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
by Paul Freedman
Oxbow says: The demand and desire for spices in the medieval period led to a burgeoning of trade in luxury goods and commercial exploration and colonial expansion. This book explores the demand for spices rather than the trade in spices per ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.00
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food
Serventi, Silvano
The fact that pasta originated in Italy is no surprise, but the history of pasta in China is an altogether different culinary story. `The Chinese became masters at transforming a great variety of starchy species of plants into pasta products', long before ...
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Regional Cuisines in Medieval Europe
Adamson, Melita Weiss
Nine mouth-watering essays on the art of cookery in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early Renaissance. Beginning with the culinary legacy of the Greek and Roman worlds (M Weiss Adamson), the contributors explore the different ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Roman Community at Table during Principate
Donahue, John F
Just like every other society through history, the Romans `utilized and manipulated food for social and symbolic ends'. Whether dining with social peers, with family members, with workers' associations, with dignitaries or with the emperor himself, public ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £47.95

Roman Food Poems
Elliot, Alistair
Roman sources are full of information on, references to, advice and comment on all aspects of food, from the raw foodstuffs to ingredients, food preparation, eating, etiquette, morality and so on. Here, Alistair Ellito has selected a whole host of Latin ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.50

A Sip Through Time (old brewing recipes)
by Cindy Renfrow
A wonderful collection of over 400 recipes for drinks such as mead, metheglin, posset, wine (try parsnip, myrtle, rose or asparagus wine), and liqueur, as well as home cures for brewing problems such as soured or cloudy wines. Culled from sources that ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95

Sociology on the menu
Beardsworth, A
This book provides a fascinating introduction to the social and cultural consequences of food and eating, from the dietary patterns of early humans to modern eating disorders. Beardsworth and Keil critically examine a range of research into the multiple social, economic, physiological, ecological and symbolic dimensions of the mundane act of eating, throughout human history. The book is arranged as a series of thematic chapters, including: The ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.99

Spice: History of a Temptation
Turner, Jack
The quest for spices led men to make the most dangerous and extreme journeys across the seas, but why was this so? This history of the spice trade questions why the trade existed at all, what drove it and how spices transformed peoples' lives and the world in which they lived. Jack Turner states that `the hunger for spices galvanised an extraordinary, unparalleled out-pouring of energies' for a commodity which, on the surface, flavoured food and ...
Hardback. Price GB £8.99

Tasting the Past
Wood, Jacqui
Food historian and archaeologist Jacqui Wood's excellent Prehistoric Cooking is now in its third edition and is one of Oxbow's all time best sellers. This new offering is a more directly practical and popular affair, a cookbook with over 200 recipes to let the reader really experience the flavours of the past. The recipes are linked by introductory text, explaining the development of cooking in Britain through the ages, and giving an idea ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99

Writing Food History: A Global Perspective
Claflin, Kyri W.
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £19.99
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £55.00

Zu Tisch Bei den Alten Romern
Gerlach, Gudrun
A cultural history of eating and drinking across the Roman empire based on the representation of feasting in ancient works of art and a wide range of associated archaeological features and artefacts including kitchens, ovens, querns, cooking implements, ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.00