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Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous investigation among physicians, theologians, agronomists and even poets and artists. Concern with eating was, in fact, central to the cultural dynamism we now recognize as the Renaissance. A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781474269926
• ISBN: 1474269923
• ID: 09486942
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 452 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 170 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. November 2015

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