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Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly: historians have addressed sources in new ways material from a wide …
Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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The beer of today - brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness - is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments …
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Whether used as a disinfectant, household cleaner, health-aid, or simply as a culinary delight, this book will show how vinegar is one of the world's most remarkable and useful substances.
The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down
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Partisan, witty, and laced with astonishing historical detail, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is dedicated to a new understanding of the art of hospitality. Jesse Browner leads the way back through Western civilization, from a present-day …
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The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration as traders pursued such common …
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Food is not simply a popularly imagined and well-known manifestation of Jewish culture. For Jews, food has been a means of exclusion, persecution, and assimilation by the larger society. Equally important, it has been an instrument of community, …
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Contains over 50 recipes from the 18th century - all of which can be reproduced in the modern kitchen. The book also describes the historical background and has information on food, cooking equipment, the serving of meals and the development of …
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Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? In fact, long-distance food is nothing new and, since the earliest times, the things we eat and drink have crossed countries …
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This book explores changes in the English diet and the specific differences between each generation. What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much? Our …
West African Food in the Middle Ages
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It is important for historians studying West Africa before the sixteenth century, particularly social and economic historians, to know what the basic foods were before the arrival of crops from the Americas such as maize, cassava, ground nuts, …
The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages
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The master cook who worked in the noble kitchens of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had to be both practical and knowledgeable. His apprenticeship acquainted him with a range of culinary skills and a wide repertoire of seasonal dishes, but …
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Illustrated with one hundred of the world's most beautiful and fascinating maps
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Compiled from contemporary letters and diaries, Voices From D-Day features stunningly evocative first-hand accounts of the Normandy landings, from both sides of the battle. Here you will find the voices of the great military planners, Churchill, …
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1966 - the year of English sporting legend. But, those 12 months witnessed so much more than the all-important 30 July at Wembley. This book revisits the time, recreates the atmosphere, talks to those who were there (at Wembley and beyond), and …
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Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captives uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence, but who got caught and caught out. …
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India is poised to become one of the world's three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2032. Well before then India's incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired …
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David Derham's range of topics, like his interests, was wide and his observations both sensitive and acute. It is our good fortune that some forty of his speeches from the 1940s through to the 1980s have now been gathered together in this one volume.
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Battlefield tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important clashes in world history. It covers battles from ancient Egypt to the Second Gulf war, placing them chronologically within their tactical, technological, and historical …
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Illustrated with over two dozen photos and diagrams, this history follows mechanized cavalry as it carved out a new role for itself on the battlefields of World War II. Drawing on extensive research, this book follows tank combat form the early …
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The fascinating stories behind some of the great partnerships of history and today. The Book of Duos reveals the intriguing facts and little known details about the great twosomes of today and yesterday. From Adam & Eve to Ben & Jerry's, Gin & …
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Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers - in cafes, pubs, brasseries and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of 'eating out' to include any eating that takes place outside the home. This work covers the cultural shifts that …
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Contains over 30 recipes from medieval times - all of which can be reproduced in the modern kitchen (with the possible exception of Dressed Swan). The recipes include dishes such as Pike with Galentyne Sauce Dried Pea Puree with Sprouts Grape …
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How did the curry get here and how did the British, a nation famed for a love of bland food, end up with Chicken Tikka Masala as their favorite dish? This book presents the history that took curry, via the British Empire, from its Eastern origins,…
The History and Social Influence of the Potato
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This revised impression enables another generation of readers to sample what Eric Hobsbawm has referred to as 'that magnificent monument of scholarship and humanity'.
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Provides an introduction to the historical geography of viticulture and the wine trade from prehistory to the present, considering wine as a symbol, rich in meaning and a commercial product of great economic importance to specific regions.
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This is the ultimate style guide to 20th century dining and social history in the West, as reflected in popular recipes and types of foods, what people used in the way of cutlery, tableware, and table settings, and trends relating to styles of …
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This book, based largely on the Cambridge World History of Food, provides a look at the globalization of food from the days of the hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants and animals. The establishment of agriculture and the …
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One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History 'And a Bottle of Rum' tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails--from the grog …
Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England
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In 1300, women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in England, but by 1600 the industry was largely controlled by men. This work asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be a woman's trade. In doing so, it sheds light on the effects of early …
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The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history. This is a new expanded edition of a classic book, originally published to great critical …