by Ken Albala From the publisher: The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for […]
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History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present
by Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick From the publisher: When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking […]
Eating Right in the Renaissance
by Ken Albala From the publisher: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, […]