Overview :From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food's cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human ... Read More
Overview :The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writing... Read More
Overview :The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth... Read More
Overview :When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichris... Read More
Overview :Changed Americless than the history of America itself. Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco ... Read More
Overview :This richly illustrated book is the first to apply the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and t... Read More
Overview :Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the hol... Read More
Overview :Hailed as a "grand theory of the American appetite" (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedman's American Cuisine demo... Read More
Overview :The Splendor and Opulence of the Past traces the career of Jaume Caresmar (1717-1791), a church historian and also a key figure of the Catal... Read More
Overview :Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and... Read More