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Author Dembińska, Maria.

Title Food and drink in medieval Poland : rediscovering a cuisine of the past / Maria Dembinska ; translated by Magdalena Thomas ; revised and adapted by William Woys Weaver
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

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Description xxiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Editor's Preface / William Woys Weaver -- Ch. 1. Toward a Definition of Polish National Cookery -- Ch. 2. Poland in the Middle Ages -- Ch. 3. The Dramatis Personae of the Old Polish Table -- Ch. 4. Food and Drink in Medieval Poland -- Medieval Recipes in the Polish Style / William Woys Weaver
Summary "This is the first book of its kind in English to explore the fascinating culinary history of medieval Poland. It represents the fruits of a twenty-year collaboration between two distinguished food historians, William Woys Weaver and the late Maria Dembinska. Freely adapted from a pioneering work first published by Dembinska in 1963, this new edition explores the subject of Polish medieval cuisine through archaeology, material culture, and ethnography, along with other perspectives and techniques. Topics examined include not just the personal eating habits of kings, queens, and nobles but also those of the peasants, monks, and other social groups not generally considered in medieval food studies."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Cooking, Polish -- History -- To 1500.
Food habits -- Poland -- History -- To 1500.
Cooking, Medieval.
Author Weaver, William Woys, 1947-
LC no. 99012275
ISBN 0812232240 alkaline paper
Other Titles Konsumpcja żivnościowa w Polsce sredniowiecznej. English