The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe is a book by Ken Albala.
Ken Albala Food Historian, Food Writer b. November 3, 1964 Brooklyn, N.Y. Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he teaches courses on the Renaissance and Reformation, Food History and the History of Medicine. He is the author of 9 books... on food history including Eating Right in the Renaissance , Food in Early Modern Europe , Cooking in Europe 1250-1650 , The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe , Beans: A History , Pancake , and the forthcoming World Cuisines written with the Culinary Institute of America . He is also editor of three food series for Greenwood Press with 24 volumes in print, and many more forthcoming. For Greenwood he is also now editing a 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia.more
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