The Magic Harvest Food, Folkore and Society

The Magic Harvest is a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food, written by one of Europe's most important and original historians of food and culture.

Piero Camporesi is Professor of Italien Literature at the University of Bologna.


Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy
The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar
The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science
Food and Popular Culture
Dietary Geography and Social History
City Cooking and Country Cooking

Bourgeois Cooking in the 19th Century: Between Tradition and Renewal
Concentrated Broth
The Demon of the Hearth
Shopping for Food
The Age of the Soya Bean
The Great Transformation
Born Under Libra
Appendices
Diet and Literature
List of Authors
Notes and References
Glossary
Index
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