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Histoire de l’alimentation Copyright © 1996 Gius. Laterza & Figli, Rome, Bari/Librairie Arthème Fayard

Copyright © 1999 Columbia University Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

[Histoire de l’alimentation. English]

Food: a culinary history from antiquity to the present /

edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari;

translated by Albert Sonnenfeld

p.   cm. — (European perspectives)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-231-11154-6 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-231-11155-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Food—History. 2. Food habits—History. I. Flandrin, Jean

Louis. II. Montanari, Massimo, 1949–. III. Sonnenfeld, Albert.

IV. Title. V. Series.

TX353.H525     1999

641.3′09—dc21

99–34859

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