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Cooking as Research Methodology: Experiments in Renaissance Cuisine

Ken Albala

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and chair of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food History: Critical and Primary Sources : Classical and Postclassical Eras

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...This essay seeks to redress a long-standing epistemological division in food scholarship. The radical separation of academic food historians from culinary historians and practitioners has had various deleterious effects. One is the tendency...

Trick or Treat? How to Wine and Dine (as a Group) for Free

Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs, Director, Vlaams Centrum Volkscultuur, Brussels Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Eating Out in Europe : Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century

Berg, 2003

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...No Free Lunch ‘There is no such thing as a free lunch.’ This American proverb illustrates that strings tend to be attached to food offered for free. On the website of the no-free-lunch organization (...

Healthy Food: The Fall and Rise of Dietetics, c.1650–c.1800

David Gentilcore

David Gentilcore is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Pomodoro! (2010) and Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Health in Early Modern Europe : Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450–1800

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction In 1763 a 44-year-old miller in the Essex town of Billericay decided he had had enough of his obesity. The sense of suffocation Thomas Wood felt after eating only added to his head...

Conclusion: Eating to Impress

Paul S. Lloyd

Paul S. Lloyd is University Tutor and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Identity in England, 1540–1640 : Eating to Impress

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The century between the Reformation and the Civil Wars was marked by changing religious values that had an impact on many aspects of life. It was also marked by socioeconomic polarization that, against a backdrop of appreciable demographic...

Locating the ‘Kitchen’

Sara Pennell

Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Michelle DiMeo, of Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550–1800 (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600–1850

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Book chapter

...‘The first foundation of a good house must be the kitchen.’ Richard Surflet , transl., Maison Rustique or The Countries Farme (...

Drinking and Alehouses in the Diary of an English Mercer’s Apprentice, 1663–1674

A. Lynn Martin

A. Lynn Martin

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Alcohol : A Social and Cultural History

Berg, 2006

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...Recent scholarship on drinking establishments—alehouses, taverns, public houses, and cabarets—demonstrates their importance in the social history of alcohol. In addition to dispensing alcoholic beverages, drinking establishments had...

The ‘Power House’: Technologies in the Kitchen

Sara Pennell

Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the co-editor, along with Michelle DiMeo, of Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 1550–1800 (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600–1850

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Book chapter

...Darley, ‘The power house‘, 106.The appraisers open the door, and survey the room before them. It is January 1603 and they are taking note of the worldly goods of Richard Francklyn, shoemaker of Farnham (Surrey). Francklyn occupied...

Old People, Alcohol and Identity in Europe, 1300–1700

A. Lynn Martin

A. Lynn Martin

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Food, Drink and Identity : Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe Since the Middle Ages

Berg, 2001

Book chapter

...The depiction of January in the fifteenth-century calendar of Les Belles Heures de Jean Due de Berry shows a young man and an old man sitting back to back. The young man, representing the new year, drinks wine from a cup. The old man...

The Diet of the Gentry

Paul S. Lloyd

Paul S. Lloyd is University Tutor and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Identity in England, 1540–1640 : Eating to Impress

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book chapter

...Oh what nisitie is this? what vanitie excesse, ryot, and superfluitie is heare? Oh farewell former world? For I have heard my Father say, in his dayes, one dish, or two of good wholsome meate was thought sufficient, for a man of great...

The Middling Sort and Their Diets

Paul S. Lloyd

Paul S. Lloyd is University Tutor and Part-time Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food and Identity in England, 1540–1640 : Eating to Impress

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book chapter

...Wealthy yeomen no Serving man, nor other Yeoman taking wages, nor such other as may not dispende of freeholde fourtie shillings by yere, as is aforesaid, shall weare any Shert, or Shert band, under...