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Elizabethan dyetary of health Jane O'Hara-May
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 n.699
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Hara-May, Jane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet--England--History--16th century.
- Diet.
- Food habits--England--History--16th century.
- Food habits.
- Nutrition--England--History--16th century.
- Nutrition.
- Health--History--16th century.
- Health.
- Physical Description:
- 415 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : Coronado Press, 1977.
- Contents:
- Channels of information
- The regimen or dyetary
- Things natural
- Things non-natural
- Criteria for estimating the value of foods
- Famine and fasting, surfeit and pestilence
- Advice to specific groups. Diets for the four complexions ; The feeding of children ; Diet in old age ; Diets for students ; Diets for all manner of men and women
- Quantity, time and order
- Introduction to foods
- Bread and cereals
- Water, wine and other drinks
- Meats and fish
- White meats
- Herbs, vegetables, fruits and nuts
- Spices, sauces and sweet things.
- Notes:
- "Much of the material in this study was submitted in a Ph. D. thesis in the University of London."--Page 9.
- Illustrations on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-401) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection
- Other Format:
- Online version: O'Hara-May, Jane. Elizabethan dyetary of health.
- ISBN:
- 0872910741
- 9780872910744
- OCLC:
- 3938342
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