History of European Culinary Culture: A Nutritional History from the Stone Age to the Present

Author: (German) Schissfeld
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Food culture here has far exceeded merely revealing the secrets of "eating," and the cultural processes in other social fields are also clearly shown. The journey of humans from rough and chaotic eating to the highly developed food culture of the modern era has been both adventurous and winding yet interesting. The book elaborately describes the food of apes, the food of ancient Greece and Rome, the food of medieval and early modern Europe, until the emergence of quasi-genetic food and the return of the binge-eating trend. Food culture here has far exceeded merely revealing the secrets of "eating," and the cultural processes in other social fields are also clearly shown.