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Author	Camporesi, Piero.
Title	The magic harvest : food, folklore and society / Piero Camporesi ; translated by Joan Krakover Hall.
Publication Info.	Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA, USA : Published in the USA by Blackwell, 1998.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	641 C	IN LIBRARY

Description	vii, 253 pages ; 23 cm
Note	"English translation ... first published in 1993 ... first published in paperback 1998"--Title page verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-241) and index.
Contents	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 nineteenth 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 -- Appendixes. Diet and literature ; List of authors -- Glossary.
Subject	Food habits -- Italy -- History.
	Food -- Italy -- History.
	Diet -- Italy -- History.
	Cooking, Italian -- History.
Added Author	Hall, Joan Krakover, translator.
Added Title	Terra e la luna. English
	Food, folklore and society
ISBN	0745621961 (pbk.)
	9780745621968 (pbk.)
	0745608353 (hbk.)

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