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The Magic Harvest Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)

The Magic Harvest By Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)

The Magic Harvest by Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)

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* Camporesi is one of Europea s most important and original historians of food and culture* This is a lively account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe* His previous book on a similar subject, The Bread of Dreams, was very widely reviewed; the present book should also receive a good deal of exposure.

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The Magic Harvest: Food, Folkore and Society by Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)

The Magic Harvest is a rich and wide-ranging account of the history of popular beliefs about food in Europe.

Focusing on Italy, Camporesi examines the social symbolism of food, and its associated rituals. He shows how the act of eating at weddings and seasonal feasts was seen as a metaphor for copulation; how Christmas and Easter were marked by special cakes rich in eggs, symbolizing renewal; how bread was viewed as a magic talisman against the forces of darkness; and how the harvest was regarded as the offspring of a fertile Earth which yielded up its fruits. All this rich and varied symbolism, he suggests, has become an opaque enigma for us today.

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The Magic Harvest is a concentrated broth of pieces every bit as rich as the cuisine that forms the focus of [Camporesi's] study. There is a convincing unity in these essays. Together, they offer a scholarly history of the slow shifts in the dietary geography and regimes of Italy to the present, a masterly display of the interdisciplinary skills food history demands and of the exciting range of questions it poses, and, not least, a provocative argument about the reasons for, and costs of, the comparatively recent 'invention' of a national 'Italian' cuisine. Coming after Bread of Dreams, this book confirms Piero Camporesi's importance in the evolving field of the history of food. John Walter, University of Essex

A collection of fascinating scholarly essays ... excellent insight into a culture which most people may only rather simplistically associate with a relatively scant diet of pasta, pizza, tripe and escalopes of veal. The Good Book Guide

Piero Camporesi is one of the most stimulating and path-breaking historians. Roy Porter

About Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)

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

Table of Contents

Part I:.

1. Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy.

2. The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar.

3. The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science.

4. Food and Popular Culture.

5. Dietary Geography and Social History.

6. City Cooking and Country Cooking.

Part II:.

7. Bourgeois Cooking in the 19th Century: Between Tradition and Renewal.

8. Concentrated Broth.

9. The Demon of the Hearth.

10. Shopping for Food.

11. The Age of the Soya Bean.

12. The Great Transformation.

13. Born Under Libra.

Appendices.

1. Diet and Literature.

2. List of Authors.

Notes and References.

Glossary.

Index.

Additional information

NLS9780745621968
9780745621968
0745621961
The Magic Harvest: Food, Folkore and Society by Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)
Piero Camporesi (University of Bologna)
New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1998-09-25
264
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