Italy's best-known food historian travels back to the birth of "modern" cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our own. Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes-both culinary and cultural-and details how food transformed from a simple staple to a symbol of social and ideological standing.
In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes¿both culinary and cultural¿from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization, he immerses readers in the passionate debates and bold inventions that transformed food from a simple staple to a potent factor in health and a symbol of social and ideological standing.
A monograph that will be of enormous use to scholars working in food studies and related cultural studies fields, while also promising delight for the general interst reader as well.
