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aeo A 2000 year history of the linked histories of food, culture and regional identity -- from Roman antiquity to the present. aeo The first book of its kind. aeo Scholarly in its range of reference, witty and accessible in style. aeo Covers all the regions of Europe.

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"Massimo Montanari has sliced through the evidence of anecdotes, novellas, dietary tracts and demographic surveys to show the close and often surprising connections between food as precarious necessity and food as symbol of power, culture and social ambition." Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents
1. The Basis for a Common Language.

2. The Turning Point.

3. To Each His Own.

4. Europe and the World.

5. The Century of Hunger.

6. The Revolution.

The Culture of Food

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/1996
      ISBN13: 9780631202837, 978-0631202837
      ISBN10: 0631202838

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      aeo A 2000 year history of the linked histories of food, culture and regional identity -- from Roman antiquity to the present. aeo The first book of its kind. aeo Scholarly in its range of reference, witty and accessible in style. aeo Covers all the regions of Europe.

      Trade Review
      "Massimo Montanari has sliced through the evidence of anecdotes, novellas, dietary tracts and demographic surveys to show the close and often surprising connections between food as precarious necessity and food as symbol of power, culture and social ambition." Times Literary Supplement

      Table of Contents
      1. The Basis for a Common Language.

      2. The Turning Point.

      3. To Each His Own.

      4. Europe and the World.

      5. The Century of Hunger.

      6. The Revolution.

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