Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy - From Kitchen to Table

Renaissance Italy’s art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of dining in Renaissance Italy.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
1: The Renaissance Kitchen and the Experience of Dining, an introduction
2: From Kitchen to Table in the Late Middle Ages
3: The Renaissance Cook and his Kitchen
4: Meals, Mealtimes and Menus
5: From Kitchen to Table: The Art of Dining
6: The Next Century in the Kitchen and at the Table, a final word
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Katherine McIver is a professor emerita of art history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power (winner of a Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award), the editor and contributor of Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (2012), and has also written about dining in Gastronomica and New Perspectives on the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior. She is the author of Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy (Rowman, 2014).

Summary

Renaissance Italy's art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of dining in Renaissance Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine McIver, Katherine A. Mciver, McIver Katherine A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2014
• EAN: 9781442227187
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2718-7
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Theme cookery books; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; COOKING / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Italy, Cookery / food & drink etc, Food & society, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies: food and society, Cookery / food and drink / food writing