Food: A Cultural Culinary History

untouchables, are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want. Diet is determined almost entirely by caste. Vegetarianism and A ...

Lecture 7: Ancient India—Sacred Cows and Ayurveda Caraka supposedly lived about 800 or 1000 B.C., but some authors date the text ...

or medicines can increase or decrease the power of any one of the doshas. Indian Cuisine  Indian cuisine is perhaps one of the ...

Lecture 7: Ancient India—Sacred Cows and Ayurveda Making Ghee Among the explicit food taboos in ancient India, there were a few ...

Yin and Yang of Classical Chinese Cuisine ...................................... Lecture 8 S ome cultures have strong, complex c ...

Lecture 8: Yin and Yang of Classical Chinese Cuisine ○ In lieu of the other two conditions, the other possibility is a thriving ...

 The Shang were ruled by kings and began to hold the kings responsible for the welfare of the people and the fertility of the ...

Lecture 8: Yin and Yang of Classical Chinese Cuisine  Probably more important than anything, one thinker in particular is cent ...

 The next dynasty, Qin (from where we get the word “China”), was very brief but decisive for history because of the use of cav ...

Lecture 8: Yin and Yang of Classical Chinese Cuisine Chinese Medicine  Chinese medicine reaches its high point during the Han ...

Anderson, The Food of China. Chang, Food in Chinese Culture. Schaefer, Golden Peaches of Samarkand. Simoons, Food in China. Swis ...

Lecture 8: Yin and Yang of Classical Chinese Cuisine a wok ring. A fl at-bottomed wok is a waste of time; you might as well just ...

Dining in Republican and Imperial Rome ......................................... Lecture 9 I n this lecture, you will learn abou ...

Lecture 9: Dining in Republican and Imperial Rome the safest investment was in land, and Cato’s manual describes how to plant vi ...

 With such great demand for food and extensive trade, there was also widespread speculation in foodstuffs. This included both ...

Lecture 9: Dining in Republican and Imperial Rome  The recipes in the cookbook, though gathered several centuries after the hi ...

 The following is an example of a recipe, which even bears the name of Apicius, that will give you a good sense of Roman elite ...

Lecture 9: Dining in Republican and Imperial Rome different from what ordinary Roman plebeians would be eating. It is a marker o ...

Add in a pot oil, garum, wine, chopped scallions, cooked pork shoulder cut into cubes. When all is cooked pound pepper, cumin, d ...

Lecture 10: Early Christianity—Food Rituals and Asceticism Early Christianity—Food Rituals and Asceticism ...................... ...