Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns (Chicago Series On Sexuality, History And Society)

Synopsis

We didn’t always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own. Named after characters in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, this lively study draws on sources ranging from cookbooks to comic novels, and examines both the highest ideals of culinary culture and its most grotesque, ridiculous and pathetic expressions. Robert Appelbaum paints a vivid picture of a world in which food was many things—from a symbol of prestige and sociability to a cause for religious and economic struggle—but always represented the primacy of materiality in life. Peppered with illustrations and a handful of recipes, Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup will appeal to anyone interested in early modern literature or the history of food.

Copyright:

2006

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

376 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780226021287

Related ISBNs:

9780226021270, 9780226021263

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Date of Addition:

10/31/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Cooking, Food and Wine, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts

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