Food & Cooking, & Diet

ISBN: 9780752434452
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
This multidisciplinary book explores the social practice of dining over 2000 years, examining the archaeological, documentary, material culture, and art historical evidence for the consumption of food and drink in various historical, social, and c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781850748724
Published by : English Heritage
Including over thirty recipes from the 17th century, this book also reveals the turbulent history of this troubled time when the country cast off its medieval traditons. It describes how new and more sophisticated tastes were reflected in the d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781850748717
Published by : English Heritage
Britain was at its most healthy during the days of rationing as people were forced to think about everything they put in their mouths. This new book in the Cooking Through the Ages series looks at the history behind rationing and its impact on ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780750938365
Published by : Sutton Publishing Ltd
This book is the Anglicised version of the American Pharaoh's Feast , with cups translated into grams and other measures or names translated wherever possible. The rest of the book, however, is unchanged and represents the culmination of a cooki... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520229471
Published by : University of California Press
Dietary fads, obsessions with fibre and low cholesterol are not new. The Renaissance saw a major out-pouring of literature on food, diets, food linked to medicine, to exercise and sex, across Europe. Ken Albala draws on a range of historical so... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780231124423
Published by : Columbia University Press
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', ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780231111546
Published by : Columbia University Press
This large volume brings together forty chapters tracing the development of culinary and eating habits from prehistoric times to the modern-day trend of `McDonaldization'. Each chapter focuses on a particular period and/or a particular area: M... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780285635333
Published by : Souvenir Press Ltd
Henry VIII's Hampton Court kitchens were the finest in the land. This richly illustrated book endeavours to provide `a practical guide to the running of the kitchens in the last years of King Henry's reign'. Drawing on his own experience, Brear... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781909248083
Published by : Prospect Books
Cato's On Farming is the oldest surviving example of Latin prose, dating to the 2nd century BC. It is a book of instruction about the cultivation of vines, olives and fruit, the management of slaves and contract labour, cookery and medicine. T... .... Learn More