Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns

by Robert Appelbaum

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We didn't always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226021270

ISBN13:9780226021270

Release Date:June 2012

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Colonial Period Cooking Cooking Cooking Education & Reference Criticism & Theory Europe History History & Criticism Holiday Cooking Literary Criticism

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