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Nichola
Fletcher.
Charlemagne's
Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting.
Orion,
2005.
ISBN
0753819740.
Paperback.
198 x
129 mm.
272pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £8.99
Feasts, banquets and grand
dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the
wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy
at family celebrations.
Nichola Fletcher has selected the most colourful feasts in history to
give a captivating account of why we enjoy gathering around a table to
eat, drink and be merry. There is the extravagance of the high medieval
and Renaissance, swallowing fathoms of blubber in North America, the
exquisite refinement of the Japanese Tea ceremony - an eclectic
collection of feasts from the flamboyant to the eccentric.
Why did Charlemagne use an asbestos tablecloth at his feasts? What is
the connection between Salvador Dali and the Aztecs? What links caviar
to quinces? Nichola Fletcher answers these and many more questions in
her compelling investigation of the feast in all its guises.
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