Food in change : eating habits from the Middle Ages to the present day /
Abstract: These essays are based on the contributions to the Fifth International Conference on Ethnological Food Research organized by the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in October 1983. This publication deals with the changing eating habits in the Middle Ages in a numbe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh : Atlantic Highlands, N.J. :
J. Donald Publishers in association with the National Museums of Scotland ; Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Humanities Press,
©1986.
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| Summary: | Abstract: These essays are based on the contributions to the Fifth International Conference on Ethnological Food Research organized by the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in October 1983. This publication deals with the changing eating habits in the Middle Ages in a number of countries--includes the U.S., but mainly in Europe. Contents includes: 1) Periods and turning-points in the history of Bulgaria and Slovakia; 2) Diet and social movements in the U.S.; 3) Potato spirits in early days of East Germany and the potato and the Polish Kitchen; 4) Hard tack as a popular food in Greece and continuity and change in the Irish diet; 5) Popular Rumanian food in the late 18th and 19th centuries and eating habits in Russian towns in the 16th and 19th centuries; 6) Pottery and food preparation, storage and transport in the Scottish Hebrides: and 7) Medieval fasting. |
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| Item Description: | "Based on contributions to the Fifth International Conference on Ethnological Food Research, organised by the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at Matrafured ... Hungary, in October 1983"--Page v. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0859761452 9780859761451 |