Les Leftovers

sort of a food history blog

Friday, May 9, 2014

Tableware in early Medieval France

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In 1838, workers at a Frankish grave site brought the archaeologists a circle of metal with triangles sticking up from it and a crosspiece ...
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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Beyond Apicius (2): recipes from other Roman sources

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As noted last week , only one true cookbook survives from Roman times, De Re Coquinaria , itself incorporating a second, and supplemented b...
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Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is "Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food'; this follows a history of French bread - "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread" - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: "They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'. CHOICE magazine named his "A History of the Food of Paris: From Roast Mammoth to Steak Frites" an Outstanding Academic Achievement for 2019; for more about this history of Parisian food, see parisfoodhistory,com . He has appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning" and other media outlets.
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