Pleasures and Horrors of Eating

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today''s media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death.In this volume, early modern ideas of feas...