David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000 (2012), Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006).

David Gentilcore’s Food and Health in Early Modern Europe … does an excellent job of evaluating how the medical philosophers of the time viewed food and how that may have influenced consumers.… [it] is an interesting read, thoughtful, dense, and thoroughly detailed, making it a good reference piece.

• Introduction: Material Conditions, Diet and Disease1. Healthy Food (I): Renaissance Dietetics2. Healthy Food (II): The 17th and 18th Centuries3. Rich Food4. Poor Food5. Regional Food6. Holy Food7. Vegetable Food8. New World Food9. Liquid FoodConclusionIndex

David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000 (2012), Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006).

David Gentilcore’s Food and Health in Early Modern Europe … does an excellent job of evaluating how the medical philosophers of the time viewed food and how that may have influenced consumers.… [it] is an interesting read, thoughtful, dense, and thoroughly detailed, making it a good reference piece.

• Introduction: Material Conditions, Diet and Disease1. Healthy Food (I): Renaissance Dietetics2. Healthy Food (II): The 17th and 18th Centuries3. Rich Food4. Poor Food5. Regional Food6. Holy Food7. Vegetable Food8. New World Food9. Liquid FoodConclusionIndex

David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Italy and the Potato: A History, 1550-2000 (2012), Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006).

David Gentilcore’s Food and Health in Early Modern Europe … does an excellent job of evaluating how the medical philosophers of the time viewed food and how that may have influenced consumers.… [it] is an interesting read, thoughtful, dense, and thoroughly detailed, making it a good reference piece.

• Introduction: Material Conditions, Diet and Disease1. Healthy Food (I): Renaissance Dietetics2. Healthy Food (II): The 17th and 18th Centuries3. Rich Food4. Poor Food5. Regional Food6. Holy Food7. Vegetable Food8. New World Food9. Liquid FoodConclusionIndex