Katherine A. Mciver

Kitchens, Cooking, and Eating in Medieval Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The foods people catch, cook, and eat often tell us a great deal about a society during a given time period. By examining both the tools and methods of the kitchen as well as the menus and mores of those eating the products, Katherine McIver offers an historical glimpse into the medieval Italian kitchen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781442248946
• ISBN-10: 1442248947
• Artikelnr.: 42809226

Autorenporträt

Katherine McIver is a professor emerita of art history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power (winner of a Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award), the editor and contributor of Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (2012), and has also written about dining in Gastronomica and New Perspectives on the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior. She is the author of Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy (Rowman, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Cooking in the Middle Ages: An Introduction The Cook and the Written
Word: Medieval Cookbooks The Literary Sources: Poems, Short Stories,
Household Inventories and Personal Letters 2 The Cook and his Staff
Hierarchy in the Kitchen The Datini Cook or Women in the Kitchen 3 The Cook
and his Kitchen The Kitchen Kitchen Equipment The Datini Kitchens 4 The
Cook and his Resources The Ingredients Food Preparation Techniques Cooking
Methods and Techniques 5 Bringing the Meal Together Planning and Making a
Meal Orchestrating and Serving the Meal Cooking and Eating with the Datini