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Feast: A History of Grand Eating
de STRONG, Roy
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151007586
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007585
- Librería
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Orlando:: Harcourt,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0151007586 . First American printing. Fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket. .
Sinopsis
Sharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions, to parade rank and hierarchy, and to flatter and influence people. There has always been a theatrical element to the feast as well-from the nude dancers who entertained dinner guests in ancient Greece to the restrained rigors of the Victorian dinner party. Sir Roy Strong examines this cultural phenomenon with knowledge, wit, and style-beginning with the ninth century B.C., when a Babylonian emperor discreetly invited seventy thousand guests for a ten-day celebration, and ending early in the twentieth century, by which time feasts had become somewhat more modest. Always attuned to how these celebrations mirror the societies that hold them and to the way they reflect shifts in power and class, this beautifully illustrated book offers a lively and illuminating history of grand eating. .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 54514
- Título
- Feast: A History of Grand Eating
- Autor
- STRONG, Roy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151007586
- ISBN 13
- 9780151007585
- Editorial
- Harcourt,
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando:
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- Gastronomy, Food
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Cookery and Food;
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Sobre el vendedor
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Springfield, Massachusetts
Sobre Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Booksellers since 1987. ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, and SNEAB member.
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