- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (7 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753819740
- ISBN-13: 978-0753819746
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 694,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Nibble your way through four millennia of courses. I ... enjoyed it so much it became my book-with-lunch... The best entries are less about food than its pyschological power.' (GUARDIAN )
"Nichola Fletcher's text is stuffed to bursting with exotic tastes and smells, many of them heavy with religious or symbolic significance." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'Fletcher's selection of feasts has been short listed for a Guild of Food Writers award, and it is easy to see why... Fletcher's book will appeal to anyone who feels passionately about food.' (HERALD )
"Nichola Fletcher's text is stuffed to bursting with exotic tastes and smells, many of them heavy with religious or symbolic significance." (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'Fletcher's selection of feasts has been short listed for a Guild of Food Writers award, and it is easy to see why... Fletcher's book will appeal to anyone who feels passionately about food.' (HERALD )
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really loved this book. The relaxed way of writing meant that I found it difficult to put down as I became engaged in the next anecdote. I also learnt a lot about a subject I thought I already knew about - from moving personal stories, gruesome feast from across the world to vivid historic description of some seriously lavish feasts. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is interested in food and the way we eat. It made me change the way I think about food and celebrations.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
This grand dinner can be YOURS!
13 Mar 2006
Format:Hardcover
Plenty of history cookbooks have been written on early dining, but CHARLEMAGNE'S TABLECLOTH: A PIQUANT HISTORY OF FEASTING goes a step further than most, narrowing the focus to the feast or banquet tradition and surveying a history of grand dinners through the ages - both successes and failures. Ceremonies accompanying such feasts around the world are surveyed, explanations of great feasting purposes and operations revealed, and special ingredients. A 'must' for any who would understand the history of elaborate feasts.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
My 2 cents
11 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed this book very much. Should be interesting to not only folks that enjoy period cooking, but tidbits of history as well.
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