missingvolume | #34 Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table by Massimo Montanari, Beth Archer Brombert (Reply)

I picked this thinking it would have some recipes as well as talking about the food culture during the medieval era. Instead what I got was a very detailed and heavily footnoted book about food and some of the reasons behind what was eaten during that time frame. The book did leave more to the Italian side since it seems the few cookbooks from that time frame were from that area. Every part of food is covered in here along with how some dining customs changed as food changed. An interesting read , but the book is more for someone doing research during that time frame and less for the average foodie. Lots of reference sources listed if you do decide to fall down that rabbit hole.

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