"Consuming Passions: A History Of English Food And Appetite" 1970 PULLAR, Philippa Playing Cards

"Consuming Passions: A History Of English Food And Appetite" 1970 PULLAR, Philippa Playing CardsPULLAR, Philippa [278] pp. Hamish Hamilton 1970 9" x 5 3 4" w two variant dust wrappers In this age of convenience food, one may look back on the past with envy. The luxury of the Romans, for whom eating and sex (often conducted simultaneously) allayed life's boredom; the sumptuous variety of the Middle Ages; the glittering dining tables of wealthy Victorians and Edwardians: was their cuisine really better, or simply more self indulgent? In Consuming

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