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Food in Early Modern England
Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions, 1500-1760 | Joan Thirsk
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What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much? Our knowledge is mostly superficial on such commonplace routines, but this book digs deep and finds surprising answers to these questions. We learn that food fads and fashions resembled those of our own day. Commercial, scientific and intellectual movements were closely entwined with changing attitudes and dealings about food. In short, food holds a mirror to a lively world of cultural change stretching from the Renaissance to the industrial Revolution. This book also strongly challenges the assumption that ordinary folk ate dull and monotonous meals.
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Bought this one for research and would have preferred a slightly different layout, but overall interesting and nuanced.

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I'm getting places but am not done. Photo from earlier because I spilled water all over everything today.

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Coffee Works have cups again??!?
(I got into the hundreds at least)

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Friday lunch at Umbria. Another book I'm reading at snail's pace, not because it's boring but because I'm taking notes every other paragraph.

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Fall came! And instead of a book picture, you get a photo of the coffee shop (mainly because their lighting is hellish for photos.)

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Approving very much of this so far. Reading research for a story.