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Aguecheek's beef, belch's hiccup, and other gastronomic interjections : literature, culture, and food among the early moderns /
We didn?t always eat the way we do today. It was only at the advent of the early modern period that people stopped eating with their hands from trenchers of bread and started using forks and plates, that lords stopped inviting scores of neighbors to dine together in great halls and instead ate separ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We didn?t always eat the way we do today. It was only at the advent of the early modern period that people stopped eating with their hands from trenchers of bread and started using forks and plates, that lords stopped inviting scores of neighbors to dine together in great halls and instead ate separately in private rooms, and that Europeans started worrying about dining ©¡ la mode, from the most refined nouvelle cuisine. Aguecheek?s Beef, Belch?s Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put into words these complex and evolving relationships between cooks and diners, hosts and guest. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 375 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226021287 0226021289 1281959049 9781281959041 9786611959043 6611959041 |