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Charlemagne's tablecloth : a piquant history of feasting / Nichola Fletcher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, in association with Peter Crawley, 2004Description: xiii, 256 pages, 24 variously numbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0297843435
  • 9780297843436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.12 22
LOC classification:
  • GT2850 .F59 2004
Contents:
1. What is a feast? -- 2. Paradise : the origin of feasts -- 3. The golden age : medieval feasting -- 4. Competitive feast : disconcerting elements -- 5. Amuse-geule : King Midas' last feast -- 6. Ingredients of the feast : fish -- 7. Chinese banquets : an ancient food culture -- 8. Ingredients of the feast : meat -- 9. Feasting in adversity : enhancing the ordinary -- 10. Soteltie : the banquet from hell -- 11. Feasting and fasting : Mardi Gras -- 12. The feast of St. Hubert : hunting, and a nine-course venison feast -- 13. Ephemera at the feast : perfume and flowers -- 14. The feast of St. Antony : pigs - the peasants' feast -- 15. Entremets : a beastly feast -- 16. The renaissance : evolution of European banquets -- 17. Thanksgivings : celebrating relief -- 18. A victorian banquet : dinner for the acclimatisation society of Great Britain -- 19. Cha-Kaiseki : a vegan feast at the Japanese tea ceremony -- 20. Intercourse : a feast in the bath : how not to behave -- 21. Rites of passage : universal symbols -- 22. A pollen feast for Ruskin : banqueting in the high forests -- 23. Burns supper : feast of fraternity, and men behaving badly -- 24. Eating people : cannibal feasts -- 25. Amuse-bouche : a feast on horseback -- 26. Midwinter feasts : light in the darkness -- 27. Feasts for the dead : conquering fear -- 28. Swansong at Hogmanay : a feast for the millennium -- 29. Charlemagne's tablecloth : a postscript.
Review: "What did Charlemagne do with his tablecloth? What is the connection between Salvador Dali and the Aztecs? And what links' caviar to quinces? All these questions and many more are answered in this compelling investigation of the feast in all its guises. As well as an eccentric's horseback dinner in a New York restaurant, we discover the disgusting, the delicious, the flamboyant and sometimes the touchingly ordinary. Most importantly, the reason behind the extravagant activities is explained. If the concept of feasting is suggestive of a bygone age, take a fresh look - the feast lives on."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. What is a feast? -- 2. Paradise : the origin of feasts -- 3. The golden age : medieval feasting -- 4. Competitive feast : disconcerting elements -- 5. Amuse-geule : King Midas' last feast -- 6. Ingredients of the feast : fish -- 7. Chinese banquets : an ancient food culture -- 8. Ingredients of the feast : meat -- 9. Feasting in adversity : enhancing the ordinary -- 10. Soteltie : the banquet from hell -- 11. Feasting and fasting : Mardi Gras -- 12. The feast of St. Hubert : hunting, and a nine-course venison feast -- 13. Ephemera at the feast : perfume and flowers -- 14. The feast of St. Antony : pigs - the peasants' feast -- 15. Entremets : a beastly feast -- 16. The renaissance : evolution of European banquets -- 17. Thanksgivings : celebrating relief -- 18. A victorian banquet : dinner for the acclimatisation society of Great Britain -- 19. Cha-Kaiseki : a vegan feast at the Japanese tea ceremony -- 20. Intercourse : a feast in the bath : how not to behave -- 21. Rites of passage : universal symbols -- 22. A pollen feast for Ruskin : banqueting in the high forests -- 23. Burns supper : feast of fraternity, and men behaving badly -- 24. Eating people : cannibal feasts -- 25. Amuse-bouche : a feast on horseback -- 26. Midwinter feasts : light in the darkness -- 27. Feasts for the dead : conquering fear -- 28. Swansong at Hogmanay : a feast for the millennium -- 29. Charlemagne's tablecloth : a postscript.

"What did Charlemagne do with his tablecloth? What is the connection between Salvador Dali and the Aztecs? And what links' caviar to quinces? All these questions and many more are answered in this compelling investigation of the feast in all its guises. As well as an eccentric's horseback dinner in a New York restaurant, we discover the disgusting, the delicious, the flamboyant and sometimes the touchingly ordinary. Most importantly, the reason behind the extravagant activities is explained. If the concept of feasting is suggestive of a bygone age, take a fresh look - the feast lives on."--BOOK JACKET.

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