The Horizon Cookbook. and Illustrated History of Eating and drinking Through the Ages. With 600 Classic International Recipes and Menus

Two volumes in one book which combines more than 600 international recipes with a history of eating and drinking. This chronicle includes: Eating with the Ancients (Food of the Pharaohs, Belshazzar's feast, Dining at Plato's Symposium); Medieval Feast and Famine (Life at King Arthur's fabled Round Table, Ribald after-dinner songs); The Renaissance Table (Excesses of Henry VIII, Dinner rites of Elizabeth I, Cooking Secrets of Poe Pius V); The Food of Asia (Great cuisines of China and Japan, Spice trade in the East, Kublai Khan's cookout); The Other Europe (Traditional Oktoberfest, Dutch treats, Sancho Panza's etiguette advice to Don Quixote, Tolstoy's table talk); Triumph of French Cooking (Dining at Louis XIV's Versailles, Brillat-Savarin's philosophy of the table); The Banquet Years (Escoffier and Cesar Ritz, Lunching with Queen Victoria, Playgirls at Maxim's) and more. Menus and Recipes.