Editore: Pimlico, 2003
ISBN 10: 0712667598 ISBN 13: 9780712667593
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Editore: Pimlico, 2003
ISBN 10: 0712667598 ISBN 13: 9780712667593
Da: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Editore: Pimlico, 2003
ISBN 10: 0712667598 ISBN 13: 9780712667593
Da: The Recycled Book Company, Scarborough, Regno Unito
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Nice copy.
Editore: Pimlico, 2003
ISBN 10: 0712667598 ISBN 13: 9780712667593
Da: Greener Books, London, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.
Paperback. Toenails cut while dining, meals served to wax effigies of the dead, napkins concealing singing birds, dishes descending from the ceiling- these are just a few of the more exotic aspects of everyman at table. From the stupendous banquets of the Ancient Babylonians, Feast covers five millennia of formal eating. Sharing a meal, in particular a grand one, has always been a complex social mechanism for uniting and dividing people. Such an event could signal peace, a marriage, a victory, an alliance, a coming- of- age, a coronation or a funeral. The feast was a vehicle for display and ostentation, for the parade of rank and hierarchy, for flattering and influencing people as well as providing a theatre in which to exercise the art of conversation and the display of manners. FEAST offers a fascinating and, at times, a highly unusual mirror of society. It gathers together for the first time all the ingredients which contributed to the phenomenon of the celebratory meal: the people, the clothes, the food, the setting, the action and its circumstances. In an age which has virtually abolished the shared meal as a central feature of daily living, FEAST presents a revelatory picture of a world we have lost. Beautifully illustrated, it traces fashions in food and the etiquette of eating, taking the reader from the elegancies of the Roman villa to the austerities of the monastic refectory, from the splendours of the Renaissance banquet to the rigours of the Victorian dinner party. 2003. A near fine, unread copy.
Editore: Vintage Publishing, 2003
ISBN 10: 0712667598 ISBN 13: 9780712667593
Da: Collectors Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgio
Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Feast by Roy Strong. Published by Vintage Publishing in 2003. Paperback ISBN:9780712667593. Collectible item in very fine condition.