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Foods are cultural insifnia. Few indicators define people so well as its foodlore. Food taboos and food celebrations are important to a culture's notions od sacrement and sin, praise and punishment, deprivation and indulgence, vigilant discipline and sustained extravagance. Medieval England's courtly appetites for splendour are evident in cookery books, courtesy manuals, household and court documents, legal records, medieval texts, and in surprising profusion, in works of art ranging from marginalia of prayer books through literary romances. This culinary excursion will introduce the English banquet hall, its furnishings, its table adornments, and its noble seritors. The 'art' of the kitchen is explored and the all important ingrdients are scrutinised. The book concludes with over 100 recipes from medieval manuscripts.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Fabulous Feasts
• Subtitle: Mediaeval Cookery and Ceremony
• Author: Madeleine Pelner Cosman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780807608982
• ISBN: 080760898X
• ID: 04720432
• Publisher: George Braziller Inc
• Weight: 672 g
• Dimensions: 183 × 253 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1999

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