About the Author
Massimo Montanari was born in Imola in 1949. He teaches medieval history at the universities of Catania and Bologna. Among his other publications are The Medieval Countryside (Turin, 1984) and Food and Culture in the Middle Ages (Rome, 1992).
Features
* A 2000 year history of the linked histories of food, culture and regional identity - from Roman antiquity to the present.
* The first book of its kind.
* Scholarly in its range of reference, witty and accessible in style.
* Covers all the regions of Europe.