Kitchens, Cooking, and Eating in Medieval Italy by Katherine A. McIver (2017)

Kitchens, Cooking, and Eating in Medieval ItalyAuthor(s): Katherine A. McIver\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442248946, 978-1442248946\nSynopsis\nThe modern twenty-first century kitchen has an array of time saving equipment for preparing a meal: a state of the art stove and refrigerator, a microwave oven, a food processor, a blender and a variety of topnotch pots, pans and utensils. We take so much for granted as we prepare the modern meal not just in terms of equipment, but also the ingredients, without needing to worry about availability or seasonality. We cook with gas or electricity at the turn of the switch we have instant heat. But it wasnt always so. Just step back a few centuries to say the 1300s and wed find quite a different kitchen, if there was one at all. We might only have a fireplace in the main living space of a small cottage. If we were lucky enough to have a kitchen, the.