Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table - Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

Italy’s best-known food historian travels back to the birth of “modern” cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our own. Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—and details how food transformed from a simple staple to a symbol of social and ideological standing.