Appetite and the Eye Visual Aspects of Food and Its Presentation Within Their Historical Context

Brings together research on food traditions, both past and present, for the historian and sociologist, as well as for all those interested in the delights and significance of eating and drinking. Chapters: ritual, form and color in the medieval food tradition; from medieval great hall to country-house dining-room: the furniture and setting of the social meals; decoration of the Tudor and Stuart table; ideal meals and their menus from the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era; keeping up appearances: the genteel art of dining in middle-class Victorian Britain; and illusion and illustration in cookery-books since the 1940s. Illustrated.Wilson, C. Anne is the author of 'Appetite and the Eye Visual Aspects of Food and Its Presentation Within Their Historical Context' with ISBN 9780788194740 and ISBN 0788194747.