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A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age (Paperback)
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A Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age (Paperback)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive
period in European food history. This was a time when enduring
feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening
geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While
cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the
mainstay of the general population, elite tastes shifted from
Renaissance opulence toward the greater simplicity and elegance of
dining a la francaise. At the same time, growing spatial mobility
and urbanization boosted the demand for professional cooking and
commercial catering. An unprecedented wealth of artistic, literary
and medical discourses on food and drink allows fascinating
insights into contemporary responses to these transformations. A
Cultural History of Food in the Early Modern Age presents an
overview of the period with essays on food production, food
systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics,
eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family
and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and
developments in food production and consumption globally.
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