Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, And The Table (Arts And Traditions Of The Table: Perspectives On Culinary History)

Acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes-both culinary and cultural-from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet to the growth of human civilization, he details the debates and inventions that transformed food from a simple staple to a symbol of social and ideological standing. Montanari shows how people adopted new attitudes toward food, investing as much in its pleasure and possibilities as in its acquisition.

• | Author: Massimo Montanari
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0231167873
• | ISBN-13: 9780231167871