Fast And Feast Of Medieval Food

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Henisch, Bridget Ann. Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society. Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1999. Using 13th to 15th century sources, the author examines the social and religious aspects of the feast and the fast for the point of view of the people who prepared, served and ate the meals. Included are recipes for many of the dishes of the time.

Montanari, Massimo, and Beth Archer Brombert. Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table. Columbia University Press, 2012. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/mont16786. Montanari, the author of multiple books on the subject of food in the middle ages, is a professor of medieval and medieval food history at the Institute of Paleography and Medieval Studies, University of Bologna. In this book,

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