Cheese, pears, peasants: history and a proverb
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1. Verfasser: Montanari, Massimo (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press c2010
Schriftenreihe:Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
"Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the extremely well known yet hard to decipher saying. Intrigued by this proverb, which has endured since the Middle Ages, Massimo Montanari launches an adventurous history of its origins and utility. Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary treatises, literary works, and anthologies of beloved proverbs, Montanari finds in the nobility's demanding palettes and delicate stomachs a deep love of cheese with pears from medieval times onward. At first, cheese and its visceral, earthy pleasures was treated as the food of Po
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 116 p)
ISBN:9780231526937

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