Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

by Massimo Montanari (Author), Beth Archer Brombert (Author), Massimo Montanari (Author), Beth Archer Brombert (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $36.96

  Italy's best-known food historian travels back to the birth of modern cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our own. Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes-both culinary and cultural-and details how food transformed from a simple staple to a symbol of social and ideological standing.