FOOD AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE by Laura Mason (Editor) ( 9781903018170 )

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FOOD AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE

By:

Laura Mason (Editor)

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190301817X

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Publisher:

PROSPECT BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 September, 2001

Edition:

annotated edition

Pages:

200

Synopsis:

This book is the eleventh volume in the series 'Food and Society' produced by the Leeds Symposium on Food History. Prospect produced last year's proceedings, Feeding a City: York; this book is uniform with that. There are plentiful black and white illustrations throughout; the book is fully indexed and annotated. BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, CHILDBIRTH, DEATH: these are the milestones of life, invariably marked by a feast or comforting rituals founded on food and drink. Some of these habits flourished, then died away - think of the cups of wine passed around the gossips gathered at a lying in; others have gone on to be industries in their own right - the wedding cake, which has slowly but surely evolved from the giant flat discs of bride cake illustrated in the sensational full-colour cover of a fete in Bermondsey by Hofnagel in the seventeenth century, to the many-tiered and icing-bedaubed monuments of today.

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30 b&w illustrations

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Prospect Books

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