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Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food

✍️ McNamee, Gregory
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🏛 Praeger 📅 2006 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780275989316
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📝 Description: Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food

Describes the history of different types of food, and provides recipes from many culinary traditions around the world.

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Publisher details for this Praeger edition are characteristically sparse, providing only a brief sketch of its historical focus and global recipes without detailing specific eras or regional depth. Consequently, casual home cooks looking for a straightforward, step-by-step weeknight cookbook will find this text less than ideal, as its emphasis leans heavily toward academic food history and lore rather than streamlined modern recipes. However, for dedicated collectors of food history and readers fascinated by culinary anthropology, it holds a respectable place on the shelf, provided they approach it primarily as an informative cultural survey rather than a daily-use kitchen manual.
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Publisher details for this Praeger edition are characteristically sparse, providing only a brief sketch of its historical focus and global recipes without detailing specific eras or regional depth. Consequently, casual home cooks looking for a straightforward, step-by-step weeknight cookbook will find this text less than ideal, as its emphasis leans heavily toward academic food history and lore rather than streamlined modern recipes. However, for dedicated collectors of food history and readers fascinated by culinary anthropology, it holds a respectable place on the shelf, provided they approach it primarily as an informative cultural survey rather than a daily-use kitchen manual.

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