Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 315 pages [8] pages of plates)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520229479
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0520927281
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1417523298
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1282356321
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1597345873
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9780520229471
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9780520927285
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9781417523290
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9781282356320
,
9781597345873
Serie:
California series in food and culture 2
Inhalt:
Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of i
Inhalt:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of the Genre -- 2. The Human Body: Humors, Digestion, and the Physiology of Nutrition -- 3. Food: Qualities, Substance, and Virtues -- 4. External Factors -- 5. Food and the Individual -- 6. Food and Class -- 7. Food and Nation -- 8. Medicine and Cuisine -- Postscript: The End of a Genre and Its Legacy -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Illustrations
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Albala, Ken, 1964- Eating right in the Renaissance Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002
Sprache:
Englisch
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