The magic harvest : food folklore and society
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TextCambridge, UK Polity Press c1993Description: viii, 253p.; notes; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; glossary; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-7456-2196-1
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1st pub. as La terra e la luna, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA, Milan, c1989. This English translation c1993, Polity Press. Translated by Joan Krakover Hall.
1 Bread and death: food and peasant rituals in Italy. 2 The two faces of time: the city calendar and the country calendar. 3 The setting of teh mon: wine, the vine and teh new science. 4 Food and popular culture. 5 Dietary geography and social history. 6 City cooking and country cooking. 7 Bourgeois cooking in the nineteenth century: between tradition and renewal. 8 Concentrated broth. 9 The demon of the hearth. 10 Shopping for food. 11 The age of the soya bean. 12 The great transformation. 13 Born under Libra. Appendix 1 - Diet and literature. Appendix 2 - List of authors
'...a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe. Focusing on Italy, Camporesi examines the social symbolism of food and its associated rituals.'
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