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First published in June 1923 to immediate success, Xavier Marcel
Boulestin's Simple French Cooking for English Homes did much to
popularise French cuisine in the English-speaking world. In this
charming book, chef, restaurateur and author Boulestin dispels the
myth that French cooking is complicated, rich and full of
nondescript dishes with pretentious names by offering over 300
delicious recipes - including traditional favourites such as Sorrel
Soup, Pommes de Terre Boulangere, Entrecote Bordelaise and Galette
au Chocolat - which are simple and easy to make. And, very
topically, the book also reveals both that many of the very best
French dishes are made up of 'remnants' and that there is very
little waste in the French kitchen. Written in an engaging style
and filled with anecdote and advice, Simple French Cooking for
English Homes is a timeless classic that demands to be included in
any keen cook's collection. Classic Voices in Food is a significant
new series bringing you a fascinating perspective on the tastes of
times gone by, as well as delicious recipes, engaging text and
original illustrations that will draw you in and leave you hungry
for more. Reproduced unabridged from the finest texts on food in
English from the 19th to the mid-20th century, each voice conveys
the unique flavour of its times, while still being astonishingly
relevant to today's cook. Filled with passion, enthusiasm and,
above all else, a timeless understanding of good food, the Classic
Voices in Food series is an essential new source of reference and
inspiration for all food lovers.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
A complete guide for the planning of fine meals, this volume
instructs budding and experienced hostesses alike in the art of
entertaining. The beautifully written and illustrated book contains
chapters on parties, the duties of a hostess, Christmas meals,
Lenten fare, exotic food, and Gothic parties. Vegetables, fish,
pancakes, pastries, and drinks are each discussed in detail, and
all recipes are carefully explained in a separate section. Users of
the book will enjoy sampling such sumptuous dishes as BA(c)casse
FlambA(c)e, Aubergines Napolitaine, and CrAapes Verlaine.
Placard is a major Upper Palaeolithic site in France, known from as
early as the middle of the nineteenth century. Paradoxically, owing
to the antiquity of the poorly-documented early excavations, dozens
of thousands of remains that were uncovered then are either
unpublished to this day, or have only been the subjects of limited
and often obsolete studies. This is the case in particular for the
human remains, for which, until recently, the cultural attribution
was moreover still under debate. Dating makes it clear they belong
to various periods, yet most of them form a homogeneous group
remarkable by traces of a specific treatment. Thanks to radiocarbon
dating and to data from further excavations carried out some thirty
years ago, this group can be dated from the Badegoulian period. Les
restes humains badegouliens de la Grotte du Placard presents a
detailed study of the Badegoulian human remains. On the basis of
quantification and bone modification analyses, they describe and
identify the treatments of the dead. Whereas the general treatment
pertains to the practice of cannibalism, more specific ones,
focused on the head, can be explained by the crafting of trophies.
On the whole, these treatments can be interpreted in a consistent
manner by one or several episodes of armed conflicts, begging the
question of the possible existence of warfare during the Upper
Palaeolithic. Thus, despite the antiquity of the discovery, the
Badegoulian human bones from le Placard still constitute a unique
assemblage that contributes greatly to our knowledge of the
behaviours of hunter-gatherer populations in European prehistory.
Papers on skull interpretations and related archaeological issues
from a roundtable event organized by La Musee National de
Prehistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac (Dordogne, France), in October
2010. Contents : 1) Decapitation/decollation : une distinction
justifiee ? (Bruno Boulestin et Dominique Henry-Gambier); 2) Tetes
coupees, tetes-trophees. L'exemple de l'ile de Paques (Nicolas
Cauwe); 3) Pourquoi couper des tetes ? (Alain Testart); 4) Quelques
reflexions a propos des coupes craniennes prehistoriques (Bruno
Boulestin); 5) Tetes coupees : donnees archeo-anthropologiques et
lignee neandertalienne (Celimene Mussini et Bruno Maureille); 6)
Les pratiques autour de la tete en Europe au Paleolithique
superieur (Dominique Henry-Gambier et Aurelie Faucheux); 7) Ofnet
et les depots de tetes dans le Mesolithique du sud-ouest de
l'Allemagne (Christian Jeunesse); 8) Le crane mesolithique de
l'abri du Mannlefelsen I a Oberlarg (Haut-Rhin) : etude des
modifications osseuses (Bruno Boulestin et Dominique
Henry-Gambier); 9) Apercu des pratiques autour de la tete du
Neolithique au premier age du fer (Bruno Boulestin); 10) A propos
des cranes decouverts dans les fosses d'enceinte de la culture de
Michelsberg (Christian Jeunesse); 11) Du prix et des usages de la
tete. Les donnees historiques sur la prise du crane en Gaule
(Jean-Louis Brunaux); 12) Pratique des tetes coupees chez les
Gaulois : les donnees archeologiques (Elisabeth Rousseau); 13)
Acquisition, preparation et autres traitements de la tete chez les
Gaulois : aspects anthropobiologiques (Bruno Boulestin et Henri
Duday). French text.
Subtitled 'Le cas des Mesolithiques de la grotte des Perrats et le
probleme du cannibalisme en prehistoire recente europeenne'. Bruno
Boulestin studies the human remains from this Mesolithic site,
especially looking for evidence of bone modification and
cannibalism. The first section looks at materials, theories and
methods of analysis, most notably the identification of evidence
for cannibalistic activity. The second section analyses the
evidence recovered from the site and makes a series of
interpretations from an evaluation of the remains. With many
illustrations.
The sites of Teviec and Hoedic, located in Brittany and excavated
from 1928 to 1934 by Marthe and Saint-Just Pequart, have yielded
twenty-odd graves dating to the end of the Mesolithic and
containing almost forty individuals. Nearly a century later, they
remain the most important funerary groups ever discovered in France
for this period, and two major French Mesolithic sites. Until these
days though, despite previous re-examinations of part of the
unearthed material, no general review of the field data or of the
human remains had ever been carried out, and all the debates
concerning the functioning of both cemeteries relied on the
interpretations once made by the Pequart and on the anthropological
studies by Marcellin Boule and Henri Victor Vallois. This book
presents the long lacking bioarchaeological review study of the
Teviec and Hoedic graves: the field data have been reconsidered,
relying in particular on a large series of pictures taken by the
excavators, and the number of dead individuals, their age and sex
have been reevaluated using anthropological techniques in
accordance with our current knowledge. This review also gives us
the occasion to carry out a global reflection on the circumstances
under which the dead were grouped during the Mesolithic period and
on the society of Atlantic Europe's last hunters-gatherers as
perceived through the filter of their funerary practices.
The Herxheim enclosure, located in the German region of Palatinate,
is one of the major discoveries of the last two decades regarding
the Linear Pottery Culture, and probably one of the most
significant in advancing understanding of how this culture ended.
The spectacular deposits, mostly composed of human remains,
recovered on the occasion of the two excavation campaigns carried
out on the site, grabbed people's attention and at the same time
raised several questions regarding their interpretation, which had
so far mostly hesitated between peculiar funerary practices, war
and cannibalism. The authors provide here the first extensive study
of the human remains found at Herxheim, focusing mainly on those
recovered during the 2005-2010 excavation campaign. They first
examine the field data in order to reconstruct at best the
modalities of deposition of these remains. Next, from the
quantitative analyses and those of the bone modifications, they
describe the treatments of the dead, showing that they actually
were the victims of cannibalistic practices. The nature of this
cannibalism is then discussed on the basis of biological,
palaeodemographic and isotopic studies, and concludes that an
exocannibalism existed linked to armed violence. Finally, the human
remains are placed in both their local and chronocultural contexts,
and a general interpretation is proposed of the events that
unfolded in Herxheim and of the reasons for the social crisis at
the end of the Linear Pottery culture in which they took place.
Megalithic monuments from Neolithic Europe have long been
considered as rough copies of the monumental architectures built by
the first civilizations of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean.
When radiocarbon dating jeopardized this diffusionist pattern,
though, specialists could not but wonder why and how these
Neolithic societies, usually considered as small 'village
communities', had erected such monuments. In order to answer these
questions and seek explanations in the social, political or
religious contexts of recent or present megalith-building
societies, the ethnological frame of references has been referred
to on a regular basis. This volume comprises the papers presented
by prehistorians and ethnologists at the two multi-disciplinary
round tables held in Strasburg in May 2014 and May 2015. Their
purpose was, with the help of both case studies and more synthetic
works, to discuss how the patterns drawn from the observation of
'living' megalithic societies have been used to try and shed light
on the functioning of European Neolithic societies, the
epistemological problems raised by this transposition and the
relevance of ethnology-based archeological explanations. The book
is composed of three sections: the first one deals with some
methodological reflections, the second and third ones with the
'living' or recent megalithisms of respectively the Indonesian
Archipelago and Ethiopia.
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