Hunger and abundance. Food history in Europe

Massimo Montanari is a media historian, a specialist in the history of food, a teacher at the University of Bologna and the only university of gastronomic sciences, in his book, traces the evolution of nutrition traditions in Europe from III to the XX century. From the bread and olive oil of the ancient Romans and the Greeks, a piece of meat on the fire of the barbar to modern canned food and fast food, from the cult of food in myths and epos, from a thousand -year fear of hunger to modern fear of overeating ... The history of nutrition is insisted by M. Montanari, the same An integral part of the history of civilization, as a political or cultural history. Getting acquainted with the fact that and how the ancestors of modern Europeans ate, the reader will see how in the evolution of gastronomy a path traveled over seventeen centuries European society was reflected, and will also be able to look at his own gastronomic habits in a new way