Tasting Histories: A Lecture Series

3. December 2012

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When:

17. January 2013 @ 16:00 – 7. March 2013 @ 18:00

Where:

University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Bldg
Toronto,Ontario M5S 3C5
Canada

Contact:

Kim Yates(416) 946-0313.

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Medieval Food

The Jackman Humanities Institute’s Program for the Arts on the theme of Food is pleased to present Tasting Histories: A Lecture Series

Poul Freedman: Seasonal and Local dining in the Middle Ages 29.11.2012
Melitta Weiss Adamson: Baghdad, Byzantium and Beyond: A Corpus of Medieval Dietetic Literature and its Reception in 15th century Bavaria.17.01.2013
Andy Orchard: Bite me: Rude Food and the Anglo-saxon Riddle Tradition 14.02.2013
Timothy Tomasik: Textual Tastes: Cookbook Marketing in early Modern France. 07.03.2013

Download Tasting Histories lecture series flyer

Poul Freedman: Some Basic aspects of Medieval Cuisine.
In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis, Series Historica 11:1 2007

Read a review of the first lecture at www.medievalist.net

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