FOOD & DRINK IN BRITIAN; From the Stone Age to the 19th Century
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers. Hardcover. 472 pages. 22 x 14 cm. The author, C. Anne Wilson, traces culinary practices and preferences from our earliest prehistoric forbears all the way down to the generation of the Industrial Revolution, and offers an extraordinary taste of the times. Wilson provides a table top perspective on class structure, religion, politics, and social custom, generously seasoned with such culinary and cultural tidbits as the importance of salt in English history, and the role of romance in England's first taste of the wines of southernmost France. Pages toned. Boards clean, dust wrapper rubbed at edges. Covered in protective mylar. Green boards, black cloth spine. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. Item #4316
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