Lamb’s Tails
Christopher Driver, 19 June 1986
All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present
by Stephen Mennell.
Blackwell, 380 pp., £14.95, October 1985,0 631 13244 9 Show More
by Stephen Mennell.
Blackwell, 380 pp., £14.95, October 1985,
Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the 14th Century including ‘The Forme of Cury’
edited by Constance Hieatt and Sharon Butler.
Oxford, for the Early English Text Society, 224 pp., £6.50, April 1985,0 19 722409 1 Show More
edited by Constance Hieatt and Sharon Butler.
Oxford, for the Early English Text Society, 224 pp., £6.50, April 1985,
“... for granted elsewhere. They order these things somewhat better in the Council of Europe, where Stephen Mennell, a disciple of Norbert Elias, began work on All Manners of Food. The slow-baked book that has finally emerged reads like a series of essays on pertinent food topics in cultural history rather than a comprehensive account of what has been ... ”