[Sca-cooks] More new books Fall 2007
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Wed Sep 19 11:47:32 PDT 2007
I promised I'd be back with more titles. These have turned up--
Byzantine --
Eat Drink and Be Merry (Luke 12: 19)-Food and Wine Byzantium: Papers of
the 37Th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in Honour of
Professor A. A. M. Bryer *Author:*
<http://www.globalbooksinprint.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/merge_shared/search/SearchResult.asp?navPage=1&SortOrder=&SortField=&collection=GLBCOLL&QueryMode=Simple&ScoreThreshold=0&ResultCount=25&SearchLink=Yes&ebip=&srchFrm=TITLEDTL&QueryText=icu%253%20>Leslie
Brubaker December, 2007 *Publisher:* *Ashgate in* United Kingdom
***ISBN:* 0-7546-6119-9 *ISBN13:* 978-0-7546-6119-1 *
* illustrated *Pages:* 290 *Price:* £50.00 GIVEN as an October release
in USA no price given.
Amazon says December and $99.00
This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals
of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of
Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of
agricultural products. The contributors present food in nearly every
conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor
for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a
virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food,
processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the
Byzantines viewed their diet, and how others - including, surprisingly,
the Chinese - viewed it. Some consider the protocols of eating in a
monastery, of dining in the palace, or of roughing it on a picnic or
military campaign; others examine what serving dishes and utensils were
in use in the dining room and how this changed over time. Throughout,
the terminology of eating - and especially some of the more problematic
terms - is explored. The chapters expand on papers presented at the 37th
Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held at the University of
Birmingham under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of
Byzantine Studies, in honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer, a fitting
tribute for the man who first told the world about Byzantine
agricultural implements.
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The Art of Drinking by Philippa Glanville & Sophie Lee, eds 30 pounds at
V&A site
Amazon says October and $50. With discount only $31.50. Glanville has
done rather
nice heavily illustrated volumes in the past. This should show up on the
holiday gift tables.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is featuring this one in their Christmas
catalog:
*Food: The History of Taste*
edited by Paul Freedman
This book is the first to apply discoveries of the new generation of
food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary
accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Including
essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians,
this publication presents a comprehensive, chronological history of
taste. The story begins with the early repertoire of sweet tastes and
the distinctive contributions made by classical antiquity and China.
Next, the reader will enjoy the subtle, sophisticated, and varied group
of food customs created by the Islamic civilizations of Iberia, the
Arabian desert, Persia, and Byzantium, followed by the magnificent
cuisine of the Middle Ages, influenced by Rome and adapted from Islamic
Spain, Africa, and the Middle East. After the Renaissance there was a
decisive break with highly spiced food traditions, and the new focus was
on the primary ingredients and products from the New World. Finally,
this publication discusses French cuisine’s rise to dominance in Europe
and America, along with the evolution of modern restaurant dining,
modern agriculture, and technological developments that contribute to
the eclectic tastes enjoyed in food today. Richly illustrated with
paintings, photographs, and graphics from throughout history, this book
tells the enthralling story of what not only sustains us, but also makes
us feel alive.
368 pages, 239 illustrations (99 in full color), 7 7/8 in. x 10 in.
Hardcover. $39.95 Amazon is saying November release.
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Then there are these 3 also that may of interest to people for a number
of reasons:
*No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach* (Nov., $24.95)
by Anthony Bourdain. The popular TV chef shares his globe-trotting
adventures in this uncensored, illustrated journal. Should be another
book tour for this one./
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*Saha: A Chef’s Journey through Lebanon and Syria* (Nov., $49.95) by
Greg and Lucy Malouf revisits hearty peasant dishes and spiced
specialties from ancient palaces. I suspect that this is modern food
being served out of ancient palaces or inspired by ancient palaces but
who knows?
Last but not least and coming in the spring--
*Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run* by Alton Brown (Stewart, Tabori &
Chang, $27.50). 250,000 copies. April 2008
Johnnae (book pusher extraordinary)
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