Art, culture, and cuisine : ancient and medieval gastronomy / Phyllis Pray Bober.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xix, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0226062538
- 9780226062532
- Art, culture, and cuisine : Ancient and mediaeval gastronomy
- 641.013 21
- TX637 .B58 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-432) and index.
Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Hellenic experience -- Hellenistic transformations -- Ancient Rome -- Early Middle Ages -- Late Gothic international style.
In Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Phyllis Pray Bober examines cooking through the dual lens of archaeology and art history. Believing that the unity of a culture extends across all forms of expression, Bober seeks to understand the minds and hearts of those who practiced cookery or consumed it as reflected in the visual art of the time. Bober draws on archaeology and art history to examine prehistoric eating customs in ancient Turkey; traditions of the great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome; and rituals of the Middle Ages. Both elegant and entertaining, Art, Culture, and Cuisine reveals cuisine and dining's place at the heart of cultural, religious, and social activities that have shaped Western sensibilities.
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