| Food and the Rites of Passage Contributor(s): Symposium Leeds (Compiled by) |
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ISBN: 190301817X ISBN-13: 9781903018170 Publisher: Prospect Books (UK) OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 394.120 |
| LCCN: 2003430590 |
| Series: Food and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.84" W x 10.16" (1.35 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is the eleventh volume in the series 'Food and Society' produced by the Leeds Symposium on Food History. Prospect produced last year's proceedings, Feeding a City: York; this book is uniform with that. There are plentiful black and white illustrations throughout; the book is fully indexed and annotated. BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, CHILDBIRTH, DEATH: these are the milestones of life, invariably marked by a feast or comforting rituals founded on food and drink. Some of these habits flourished, then died away - think of the cups of wine passed around the gossips gathered at a lying in; others have gone on to be industries in their own right - the wedding cake, which has slowly but surely evolved from the giant flat discs of bride cake illustrated in the sensational full-colour cover of a f te in Bermondsey by Hofnagel in the seventeenth century, to the many-tiered and icing-bedaubed monuments of today. |