Friday, December 28, 2012

Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture


Harris, Marvin. Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1998. Print.

Contents:

1. Good to Think or Good to Eat?
2. Meat Hunger
3. The Riddle of the Sacred Cow
4. The Abominable Pig
5. Hippophagy
6. Holy Beef, U.S.A.
7. Lactophiles and Lactophobes: Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
8. Small Things
9. Dogs, Cats, Dingoes, and Other Pets
10. People Eating
11. Better to Eat

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European Gastronomy : The Story of Man's Food and Eating Customs


Bode, W. K. H. (Willi Karl Heinrich). European Gastronomy : The Story of Man's Food and Eating Customs. London : Grub Street, 2000. Print.

Book Info: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7o3ycqe39i85ulo


Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays. Ed. Melitta Weiss Adamson. New York: Routledge,2002. Print.

Contents:

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Chapter 1: The Classical World Melitta Weiss Adamson 1
Chapter 2. Medieval Britain Constance B. Hieatt 19
Chapter 3. Medieval France
A. The North Terence Scully 47
B. The South Carole Lambert 67
Chapter 4. Medieval and Renaissance Italy
A. The Peninsula Simon Varey 85
B. Sicily Habeeb Salloum Chapter 113
Chapter 5. Medieval Spain Rafael Chabran Chapter 125
Chapter 6. Medieval Germany Melitta Weiss Adamson 153
Chapter 7. The Low Countries in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Johanna Maria van Winter 197
Bibliography 215

Book Info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415803618/

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At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


At the Table: Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Timothy J. Tomasik and Juliann M. Vitullo. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. Print.

Contents:

Book Info: http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503523989-1

Online Content: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/ux1475/ (with free Contents and Index)

The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature


Gowers, Emily. The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Print.

Contents:
1. An Approach to Eating
2. Barbarian Spinach and Roman Bacon: the Comedies of Plautus
3. Black Pudding: Roman Satire (Introduction, Horace, Persius, Juvenal)
4. A Taste of Things to Come: Invitation Poems (Introduction; Catullus 13, Martial, Pliny Epistle 1.15)
5. Garlic Breath: Horace Epode 3
6. References
Index

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