Title Eating right in the Renaissance / Ken Albala.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 315 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Series	California series in food and culture ; 2
	California series in food and culture ; 2.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Spelling -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of the Genre -- 2. The Human Body: Humors, Digestion, and the Physiology of Nutrition -- 3. Food: Qualities, Substance, and Virtues -- 4. External Factors -- 5. Food and the Individual -- 6. Food and Class -- 7. Food and Nation -- 8. Medicine and Cuisine -- Postscript: The End of a Genre and Its Legacy -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Illustrations.
Summary	Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of i.
Subject	Gastronomy.
	Food habits -- Europe -- History.
	Diet -- history.
	Diet Therapy -- history.
	Feeding Behavior.
	Socioeconomic Factors.
	Europe.
	COOKING -- General.
	HISTORY -- Renaissance.
	Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
	Gastronomy. (OCoLC)fst00938901
	Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
	Dieetleer.
	Eetcultuur.
	Europa (geografie) (NL-LeOCL)078500982
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Albala, Ken, 1964- Eating right in the Renaissance. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520229479 (DLC) 00067229 (OCoLC)45532460
ISBN	9780520927285 (electronic bk.)
	0520927281 (electronic bk.)
	1417523298 (electronic bk.)
	9781417523290 (electronic bk.)
	1597345873 (electronic bk.)
	9781597345873 (electronic bk.)

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