{"product_id":"the-magic-harvest-food-folkore-and-society-9780745621968","title":"The Magic Harvest  Food Folkore and Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Camporesi is one of Europea s most important and original historians of food and culture* This is a lively account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe* His previous book on a similar subject, The Bread of Dreams, was very widely reviewed; the present book should also receive a good deal of exposure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Magic Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e is a concentrated broth of pieces every bit as rich as the cuisine that forms the focus of [Camporesi's] study. There is a convincing unity in these essays. Together, they offer a scholarly history of the slow shifts in the dietary geography and regimes of Italy to the present, a masterly display of the interdisciplinary skills food history demands and of the exciting range of questions it poses, and, not least, a provocative argument about the reasons for, and costs of, the comparatively recent 'invention' of a national 'Italian' cuisine. Coming after \u003ci\u003eBread of Dreams,\u003c\/i\u003e this book confirms Piero Camporesi's importance in the evolving field of the history of food.\" \u003ci\u003eJohn Walter, University of Essex\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"A collection of fascinating scholarly essays ... excellent insight into a culture which most people may only rather simplistically associate with a relatively scant diet of pasta, pizza, tripe and escalopes of veal.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Good Book Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"Piero Camporesi is one of the most stimulating and path-breaking historians.\" \u003ci\u003eRoy Porter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I:\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e1. Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Food and Popular Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Dietary Geography and Social History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. City Cooking and Country Cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Bourgeois Cooking in the 19th Century: Between Tradition and Renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Concentrated Broth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Demon of the Hearth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Shopping for Food.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Age of the Soya Bean.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Great Transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Born Under Libra.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Diet and Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. List of Authors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes and References.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767972659543,"sku":"9780745621968","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745621968.jpg?v=1758715744","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-magic-harvest-food-folkore-and-society-9780745621968","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}