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Eating Right in the Renaissance
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| #1873893 in Books | 2002-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.88 x5.98l,1.48 | File type: PDF | 324 pages||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Required reading for the aspiring nutritionist|By Lynn Hoffman, author:Radiation Days: A Comedy|Ken Albala is a thoroughly charming writer. This short excursion into the state of renaissance thought is a delight to read for its charm alone. Underneath the charm is first an analysis of the humoral theory-a way of making sense of human variation that stood u||"Albala 's engaging tour through the host of Renaissance dietary theories reminds us that our preoccupations with food and susceptibility to cranky advice about nutrition are nothing new. This is superior scholarship delivered with a light touch."-Rachel Lauda
Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account of the differences between the nutritional logic of the past and our own time, this inviting book examines the wide-ranging dietary literature of the Renaissance. Ken Alb...
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