IL CIBO DEGLI ALTRI. VIAGGIATORI MEDIEVALI ALLA TAVOLA DEGLI STRANIERI
Journal: Istituto Lombardo - Accademia di Scienze e Lettere - Incontri di Studio
Year: 2016

Food can be a means of comparison between peoples and cultures. Everyone needs to eat, but every people has its own foods and alimentary customs, different from others; realizing these differences is a way for recognizing or highlighting affinities or distances. This paper exemplifies the assumption, reporting some experiences of medieval travellers, who came into contact with exotic food habits, very far from European customs. William of Rubruk, traveller in Mongolia in the thirteenth century,