Eating Right In The Renaissance

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520927285

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Eating Right in the Renaissance by Ken Albala Pdf

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 information on food and an intriguing account of the differences between the nutritional logic of the past and our own time, this inviting book examines the wide-ranging dietary literature of the Renaissance. Ken Albala ultimately reveals the working of the Renaissance mind from a unique perspective: we come to understand a people through their ideas on food. Eating Right in the Renaissance takes us through an array of historical sources in a narrative that is witty and spiced with fascinating details. Why did early Renaissance writers recommend the herbs parsley, arugula, anise, and mint to fortify sexual prowess? Why was there such a strong outcry against melons and cucumbers, even though people continued to eat them in large quantities? Why was wine considered a necessary nutrient? As he explores these and other questions, Albala explains the history behind Renaissance dietary theories; the connections among food, exercise, and sex; the changing relationship between medicine and cuisine; and much more. Whereas modern nutritionists may promise a slimmer waistline, more stamina, or freedom from disease, Renaissance food writers had entirely different ideas about the value of eating right. As he uncovers these ideas from the past, Ken Albala puts our own dietary obsessions in an entirely new light in this elegantly written and often surprising new chapter on the history of food.

Author : Mike Israetel,Melissa Davis,Jen Case,James Hoffmann
Publisher : Meyer & Meyer Sport
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781782554929

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The Renaissance Diet 2.0 by Mike Israetel,Melissa Davis,Jen Case,James Hoffmann Pdf

The Renaissance Diet 2.0 is not a fad. Instead, this hands-on guide presents a sports nutrition approach to eating for fat loss, muscle gain, and enhanced sport performance by incorporating current, comprehensive evidence—setting it apart from all the misinformation on nutrition available today. Within this book, you will read which parts of a diet determine results. Delving into calorie intake, food quality, meal spacing and timing, and supplement use, you will understand how to rank-order each part based on its relative contribution to diet, ensuring that you remain focused and avoid getting needlessly caught up in minute details. Next you will further explore why and how calories matter; how much protein is enough; whether snacking is a good idea or if intermittent fasting is better. Each of these questions and more will be answered, giving you the foundational knowledge to understand diet structure. Finally, you will learn how to design your individual diet by using the given step-by-step guidelines on how to modify your diet as your body adapts. Additional information about hunger management, diet psychology, and long-term diet planning is provided—all to achieve the best results. Also included are special diet considerations for a vegan diet, training multiple times a day, competition day, endurance sports, and women at different life stages, as well as information on the most pervasive diet myths and why they are wrong. By using the knowledge and tools in this book, you are guaranteed to achieve any fat loss, muscle gain, or performance goal. Renaissance Periodization has helped hundreds of thousands of clients across the world reach their fitness goals. Whether you want to lose fat, gain muscle, or improve sports performance, the experts at RP can help get you there. Foreword by Rich Froning.

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995376

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A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance by Ken Albala Pdf

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous investigation among physicians, theologians, agronomists and even poets and artists. Concern with eating was, in fact, central to the cultural dynamism we now recognize as the Renaissance. A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : IND:30000085862369

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Food in Early Modern Europe by Ken Albala Pdf

This unique book examines food's importance during the massive evolution of Europe following the Middle Ages.

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350995772

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A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance by Ken Albala Pdf

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous investigation among physicians, theologians, agronomists and even poets and artists. Concern with eating was, in fact, central to the cultural dynamism we now recognize as the Renaissance. A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.

Author : Marion Gymnich
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783862347759

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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating by Marion Gymnich Pdf

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death.In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine.It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture.

Author : David B. Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107039063

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Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England by David B. Goldstein Pdf

Goldstein presents a lively analysis of Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors from the perspective of communal eating.

Author : Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313084829

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Food in Medieval Times by Melitta Weiss Adamson Pdf

Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and celebrated, and what restrictions they followed for health and faith reasons. Fascinating information is provided, such as on imitation food, kitchen humor, and medical ideas. Many period recipes and quotations flesh out the narrative. The book draws on a variety of period sources, including as literature, account books, cookbooks, religious texts, archaeology, and art. Food was a status symbol then, and sumptuary laws defined what a person of a certain class could eat—the ingredients and preparation of a dish and how it was eaten depended on a person's status, and most information is available on the upper crust rather than the masses. Equalizing factors might have been religious strictures and such diseases as the bubonic plague, all of which are detailed here.

Author : Nathalie Cooke
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780773577176

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What's to Eat? by Nathalie Cooke Pdf

How we as Canadians procure, produce, cook, consume, and think about food creates our cuisine, and our nation of immigrant traditions has produced a distinctive and evolving repertoire that is neither hodgepodge nor smorgasbord. Contributors, who come from the diverse worlds of universities, museums, the media, and gastronomy, look at Canada's distinctive foodways from the shared perspective of the current moment. Individual chapters explore food items and choices, from those made by Canada's First Nations and early settlers to those made today. Other contributions describe the ways in which foods enjoyed by early Canadians have found their way back onto Canadian tables in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Authors emphasize the expressive potential of food practices and food texts; cookbooks are more than books to be read and used in the kitchen, they are also documents that convey valuable social and historical information.

Author : Ken Albala,Trudy Eden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231520799

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Food and Faith in Christian Culture by Ken Albala,Trudy Eden Pdf

Without a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely divergent practices that spread, nurtured, and strengthened their religious beliefs and communities. Featuring never-before published essays, this anthology follows the intersection of food and faith from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century, charting the complex relationship among religious eating habits and politics, culture, and social structure. Theoretically rich and full of engaging portraits, essays consider the rise of food buying and consumerism in the fourteenth century, the Reformation ideology of fasting and its resulting sanctions against sumptuous eating, the gender and racial politics of sacramental food production in colonial America, and the struggle to define "enlightened" Lenten dietary restrictions in early modern France. Essays on the nineteenth century explore the religious implications of wheat growing and breadmaking among New Zealand's Maori population and the revival of the Agape meal, or love feast, among American brethren in Christ Church. Twentieth-century topics include the metaphysical significance of vegetarianism, the function of diet in Greek Orthodoxy, American Christian weight loss programs, and the practice of silent eating rituals among English Benedictine monks. Two introductory essays detail the key themes tying these essays together and survey food's role in developing and disseminating the teachings of Christianity, not to mention providing a tangible experience of faith.

Author : John L. Varriano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015084134520

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Tastes and Temptations by John L. Varriano Pdf

"John Varriano's book is not only a delightful read but draws fascinating parallels between two hitherto disparate fields: art history and the history of food in the Renaissance. Outstanding scholarship that opens whole new venues of inquiry."--Ken Albala, author of Eating Right in the Renaissance and Beans: A History "Art history and food history have traditionally been separate disciplines, parallel universes. In this book John Varriano makes a cosmic leap and lures the two into a stimulating, provocative, and always entertaining study--a tasting menu of gastronomic and visual delights."--Gillian Riley, author of The Oxford Companion to Italian Food "With wit and erudition, John Varriano shows us how broad cultural relationships can be drawn between the developments of Italian Renaissance art and the period's growing and changing interest in food. Enlightening and fascinating details greatly enhance our understanding of the roles that taste and temptation played in creating the early modern world."--David G. Wilkins, co-editor of History of Italian Renaissance Art "Appetites for palate and palette are both whetted in Varriano's urbane and thoroughly magisterial study. What could be more satisfying than to feast on food and art together at the same historic table?"--Patrick Hunt, author of Renaissance Visions

Author : Ken Albala
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313014444

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Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650 by Ken Albala Pdf

Ever get a yen for hemp seed soup, digestive pottage, carp fritters, jasper of milk, or frog pie? Would you like to test your culinary skills whipping up some edible counterfeit snow or nun's bozolati? Perhaps you have an assignment to make a typical Renaissance dish. The cookbook presents 171 unadulterated recipes from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Elizabethan eras. Most are translated from French, Italian, or Spanish into English for the first time. Some English recipes from the Elizabethan era are presented only in the original if they are close enough to modern English to present an easy exercise in translation. Expert commentary helps readers to be able to replicate the food as nearly as possible in their own kitchens. An introduction overviews cuisine and food culture in these time periods and prepares the reader to replicate period food with advice on equipment, cooking methods, finding ingredients, and reading period recipes. The recipes are grouped by period and then type of food or course. Three lists of recipes-organized by how they appear in the book and by country and by special occasions-in the frontmatter help to quickly identify the type of dish desired. Some recipes will not appeal to modern tastes or sensibilities. This cookbook does not sanitize them for the modern palate. Most everything in this book is perfectly edible and, according to the author, noted food historian Ken Albala, delicious!

Author : Rebecca Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107003422

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The Body of the Conquistador by Rebecca Earle Pdf

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.

Author : Kima Cargill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442251328

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Food Cults by Kima Cargill Pdf

Understanding how food fads and diets can develop a fervent following that rise to the level of a cult is a new area of study and often overlooked. Here, Kima Cargill and other experts shed fresh light on the subject, revealing how and why such cults may develop among certain communities.

Author : Marjorie Swann
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271096575

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Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler by Marjorie Swann Pdf