Bread and salt : a social and economic history of food and drink in Russia / R.E.F. Smith and David Christian
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #425985
ISBN: 052125812X
Physical description; xvi, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-377) and index. Contents; Machine derived contents note: Introduction; Part I. The early diet: 1. Farming and gathering: grain and game; 2. Salt: a major extractive industry; 3. Drink: ale and alchemy; Part II. State appetite, peasant diet: 4. Controls and code: the seventeenth century; 5. Steppes and counter-measures: the eighteenth century; 6. Tea and temperance; Part III. Rural diets on the eve of change: 7. The established pattern; 8. Tavern and treasury; 9. Good time and bad; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. Subjects; Food supply Soviet Union History. Food industry and trade Soviet Union History. Food Social aspects Soviet Union History. Salt Social aspects Soviet Union History. Beverages Social aspects Soviet Union History. Cookery, Russian History. Food Supply history. Food Industry history. Feeding Behavior history. Food sociology. Beverages sociology.
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