Cooking and Dining in Medieval England by Peter C. D. Brears [Paperback]

Description: The history of medieval food and cookery has received a fair amount of attention from the point of view of recipes (of which many survive) and of the general context of feasts and feasting. It has never, as yet, been studied with an eye to the real mechanics of food production and service: the equipment used, the household organisation, the architectural arrangements for kitchens, store-rooms, pantries, larders, cellars, and domestic administration. This new work by Peter Brears, perhaps Britain's foremost expert on the historical kitchen, looks at these important elements of cooking and dining. A series of chapters looks at the cooking departments in large households: the counting house, dairy, brewhouse, pastry, boiling house and kitchen. These are illustrated by architectural perspectives of surviving examples in castles and manor houses throughout the land. There are chapters dealing with the various sorts of kitchen equipment: fires, fuel, pots and pans. Sections are then devoted to recipes and types of food cooked. The recipes are those which have been used and tested by Peter Brears in hundreds of demonstrations to the public and cooking for museum displays. Finally there are chapters on the service of dinner and the rituals that grew up around these. Here, Peter Brears has drawn a strip cartoon of the serving of a great feast (the washing of hands, the delivery of napery, the tasting for poison, etc.) which will be of permanent utility to historical re-enactors who wish to get their details right.

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EAN: 9781903018873

UPC: 9781903018873

ISBN: 9781903018873

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Book Title: Cooking and Dining in Medieval England

Number of Pages: 560 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Boyars Publishers, LTD., MARION

Topic: History & Theory, General, Regional & Ethnic / English, Scottish & Welsh, Europe / Great Britain / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History

Item Height: 1.5 in

Publication Year: 2012

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, Cooking, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 37.6 Oz

Item Length: 10 in

Author: Peter Brears

Item Width: 7 in

Format: Trade Paperback