A Feast of Words Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 08/01/1991
Description:
Our gastronomy is ill at ease: it oscillates between fast food and nouvelle ciusine, we compute the time it takes to eat a good meal and anxiously count calories. For the Victorians have passed on to us an austere morality and an instinctive mistrust of physical over-indulgence.
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