Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite

by Philippa Pullar

Book Overview

in this age of convenience food, we may look back on the past with envy. The luxury of the Romans, for whom eating and sex (often conducted simultaneously) allayed life's boredom; the sumptuous variety of the Middle Ages with its French influence; the glittering dining tables of wealthy Victorians and Edwardians: was their cuisine really better, or simply more self-indulgent? in Consuming Passions, Philippa Pullar gives us an absorbing and often hilarious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141390662
• ISBN13: 9780141390666
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.