A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance
Ken Albala, "A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance "
English | ISBN: 0857850253 | 2014 | 256 pages | PDF | 884 KB
English | ISBN: 0857850253 | 2014 | 256 pages | PDF | 884 KB
Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous investigation among physicians, theologians, agronomists and even poets and artists. Concern with eating was, in fact, central to the cultural dynamism we now recognize as the Renaissance.