Search results for 'food'
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European Festival Food [Paperback]
Elisabeth Luard (Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781908117434
Published by : Grub Street Cookery
From all over Europe from Scotland to the Mediterranean, from Hungary to Cornwall, Elisabeth Luard has collected descriptions of traditional feasts and festivals, many of which she has experienced first hand, and hundreds of recip... .... Learn More -
Roman Food Poems [Paperback]
Alistair Elliot (Author)
Regular Price: $22.95
Special Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9781903018255
Published by : Prospect Books
It is quite bizarre that a culture so besotted with food and all things relating to the stomach and the senses should have left but one cookery book. The curious, therefore, must resort to other sources of inspiration for information about the ... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feast [Paperback]
Tamara L Bray (Author)
$55.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780306477713
Published by : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Food, along with sex, has long been recognised as one of the most important mainstays of, not only the essence of life, but also of politics. These ten essays present comparative case studies from the Old and New Worlds addressing the political co... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feast [Hardback]
Tamara L Bray (Author)
$115.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780306477300
Published by : Kluwer Academic Publishers
Food, along with sex, has long been recognised as one of the most important mainstays of, not only the essence of life, but also of politics. These ten essays present comparative case studies from the Old and New Worlds addressing the political co... .... Learn More -
Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul [Hardback]
Bonnie Effros (Author)
$65.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780312227364
Published by : Palgrave
Feasting and fasting rituals were a central facet of social interaction in early medieval Gaul. With the adoption of Christianity in the third and fourth centuries in cosmopolitan centers and in the fifth and sixth centuries in rural communiti... .... Learn More -
Ancient Food Technology [Hardback]
Robert I Curtis (Author)
Regular Price: $213.00
Special Price: $99.00
Out of stock
ISBN: 9789004096813
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Series: TECHNOLOGY & CHANGE IN HISTORY
Volume: 5
A much welcomed synthesis on ancient food production and processing, presenting updated discussions of the kinds of subjects addressed in R. Forbes' Studies in Ancient Technology . Here Curtis draws on archaeological, epigraphic, literary, art ... .... Learn More -
The Emergence of Food Production in Ethiopia [Paperback]
Tertia Barnett (Author)
$72.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9780860549710
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: bar archaeopress
Volume: 763
'Ethiopia has long been regarded as "one of the world's greatest and oldest centres of domesticated seed plants"'. This book discusses when, how and why food production developed in Ethiopia. It begins with questions and problems, and ethnograp... .... Learn More -
Food and Feast in Tudor England [Paperback]
Alison Sim (Author)
Regular Price: $14.95
Special Price: $6.98
ISBN: 9780750937726
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
Popular representations of the Tudors at table have caricatured them as loud, gross and lacking any manners. This is actually far from the case, as food and dining were used as social display by the upwardly mobile. For those with money, meals ... .... Learn More -
Food and Feast in Medieval England [Paperback]
P. W. Hammond (Author)
Regular Price: $14.95
Special Price: $6.98
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ISBN: 9780750937733
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
Based on archaeological and written evidence, this book deals with eveything we know about Medieval food, from hunting and harvesting to food hygiene and the organization of a large household kitchen. Evaluates the nutritional value of Medieval... .... Learn More -
Living off the Chora: Food and Diet in Ancient Pantanello [Paperback]
Carter (Author); J. C. Carter (Editor); Alberto Prieto (Author)
$17.00ISBN: 9780970887955
Published by : Institute of Classical Archaeology
With research spanning from 1978, this volume examines the primary evidence of plant and animal sources in the diet, cookware, and the state of nutrition based on human skeletal and dental remains. It is a specialized survey of the current stat... .... Learn More