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UK Winner of the Entertaining category of the Gourmand World
Cookbook Awards 2020 Food defines us as individuals, communities,
and nations - we are what we eat and, equally, what we don't eat.
When, where, why, how and with whom we eat are crucial to our
identity. Feast and Fast presents novel approaches to understanding
the history and culture of food and eating in early modern Europe.
This richly illustrated book will showcase hidden and
newly-conserved treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum and other
collections in and around Cambridge. It will tease out many
contemporary and controversial issues - such as the origins of food
and food security, overconsumption in times of austerity, and our
relationship with animals and nature - through short research-led
entries by some of the world's leading cultural and food
historians. Feast and Fast explores food-related objects, images,
and texts from the past in innovative ways and encourages us to
rethink our evolving relationship with food.
This book explores the significance of beautiful and engaging
objects - chosen, acquired, personalised and treasured - to the
people who once owned them. With over 300 works discussed, it takes
us on a dazzling visual adventure through the decorative arts, from
Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronze and maiolica to the
elaborate tablewares and personal adornments available to shoppers
in the Age of Enlightenment. En route the authors consider the
impact of global trade on European habits and expectations: the
glamour of the Eastern exotic, the ubiquity of New World products
like chocolate and sugar, and the obsession with Chinoiserie
decoration. They ask what decorative objects meant to their owners
before the age of industrial mass production, and explore how
technological innovation and the proliferation of goods from the
sixteenth century onwards transformed the attitude of Europeans to
their personal possessions. Illustrated throughout with superb
colour photographs, many unfamiliar and hitherto unseen gems of the
Fitzwilliam Museum's Applied Arts collection are here published for
the first time.
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