The Culture of Food
How Europe's food cultures formed and clashed, from Roman bread and wine to the modern table.
Massimo Montanari, an Italian food historian, tells the story of European eating from the late Roman Empire to the present. He shows how the clash between Roman bread, wine and oil and the meat-eating culture of the northern peoples shaped Europe, and how famine, plenty, class and religion changed what people ate.
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Carolyn Steel
It’s just such a fascinating thing that there are these extraordinarily powerful, deeply buried understandings of who we are and what we are that can be understood through how we feed ourselves. I was unbelievably lucky to have come across this book first.
Interview · April 2010
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