All manners of food : eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present /

Mennell, Stephen

All manners of food : eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present / Stephen Mennell - 2nd ed., Illini books ed. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996] - x, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- The civilising of appetite -- Pottages and potlatch: eating in the Middle Ages -- From Renaissance to Revolution: court and country food -- From Renaissance to Revolution: France and England - some possible explanations -- The calling of cooking: chefs and their publics since the revolution -- The calling of cooking: the trade press -- Domestic cookery in the Bourgeois Age -- The enlightenment of the domestic cook? -- Of gastronomes and guides -- Food dislikes -- Diminishing contrasts, increasing varieties

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Food habits--History--England
Food habits--History--France
Food habits--Social aspects
Cookery, English--History
Cookery, French--History