The Magic Harvest
Subtitle: Food, Folklore and Society
Contributors: Joan Krakover Hall (Translator)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780745608358
Subjects: Customs; Folklore; General cookery; Social history; Social Science; Food; Food Science; Sociology - General; Italy; Sociology; Europe; Customs & Traditions; Europe - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Diet; Food habits; History
First sentence: In the pre-industrial age the Italian peasants' dietary system revolved around the great copper paiuolo, the cauldron that hung on chains from the chimney.