Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony - Couverture souple

Cosman, Madeleine Pelner

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080760898X ISBN 13 : 9780807608982

Editeur : George Braziller Inc, 2002

Synopsis

• Beautiful colour plates compliment a scholarly text
• Written by an authority on the subject
• Includes a section on medieval recipes and a practical guide to re-creating the dishes

Foods are cultural insignia. Few indicators define a people so well as its foodlore. Food taboos and food celebrations are important to a culture s notions of sacrament 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 servitors. The 'art' of the kitchen is explored and the all important ingredients are scrutinised. The book concludes with over 100 recipes from medieval manuscripts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Madeleine Pelner Cosman is Director of the Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the City College of City University in New York

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: George Braziller Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080760898X
• ISBN 13: 9780807608982
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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