This softcover book with 128 full color pages presents the table in the Middle Ages.
Inviting you to discover the table in the Middle Ages, the author draws us into a universe of dazzling sensorial and symbolic richness. At the table of the lords, the dishes were sometimes colored orange-yellow or bright red.
They were generously seasoned with expensive spices and subtle aromas.
Some of the dishes had an unprecedented degree of refinement, such as these swans with beaks and golden-golden paws, served with their feathers and with their wings spread out.
The medieval feast was a total spectacle that took place according to a very codified ritual and that embellished musicians and storytellers, jugglers and acrobats.
This work also speaks of bread and cereal porridge of the humble and modest bean dishes. That is, the food of the population.
It also evokes the food of the monks and reminds us that the Church imposed, to the religious as to the laity, the strict alternation of the fat days and the meager days.
The style of the eater must imperatively conform to his social rank. That is why, when we look at the tables of the Middle Ages, we learn a lot about the society of the time, its organization and economic activities, its cultural and symbolic norms.

Contents:

• Three social groups with contrasting diets: lords, monks and peasants
• Agricultural foods, wild foods
• Medieval feasts and banquets
• Taste for spices
• Furniture, utensils and table manners
• In the kitchen...
• Conclusion

The French texts are written by Eric Birlouez.

Printed in 2015, this book is NEW and is 6-½ inches x 9-½ inches ( 17 cm x 24 cm )