Food in Early Modern England

Phases, Fads, Fashions, 1500-1760

AvJoan Thirsk

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much? Our documents are mostly silent on such commonplace routines, but this book digs deep and finds surprising answers to these questions. Food fads and fashions resembled those of our own day. Commercial, scientific and intellectual movements were closely entwined with changing attitudes and dealings about food. In short, food holds a mirror to a lively world of cultural change stretching from the Renaissance to the industrial Revolution. This book also strongly challenges the notion that ordinary folk ate dull and monotonous meals.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 29 mm
Vikt:830 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781852855383

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Joan Thirsk is the UK's leading historian of agriculture.

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"compelling" " a serious meticulously researched work of social history. It is precisely the scholarly yet approachable kind of book that has long been Joan Thirk's stock-in-trade." "appealingly straightforwad" "she has crafted a comprehensive, elegantly written account of our nation's culinary history."

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Setting the Scene Before 1500; 2. The Food Scene Surveyed, 1500-1550; 3. The Widening World of Food, 1550-1600; 4. Science and the Search for Food, 1600-1640; 5. War and the Search for Food, 1640-1660; 6. Food in the Commercial Age, 1660-1700; 7. Food in an Industrialising Age, 1700-1760; 8. Regional and Social Patterns of Diet, 1500-1760; 9. A Closer Look at Some Foods; Bread; Meat of Farmyard Animals and Rabbits; Eggs and Bird Meat, Farm-Fed and Wild; Fish; Vegetables and Herbs. Fruit and Nuts; Drinks; Condiments and Spices; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.