{"product_id":"9781903018170","title":"Food and the Rites of Passage: Proceedings of the Leeds Symposium on Food History 1999","description":"\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the eleventh volume in the series ‘Food and Society’ produced by the Leeds Symposium on Food History. Prospect produced last year’s proceedings, Feeding a City: York; this book is uniform with that. There are plentiful black and white illustrations throughout; the book is fully indexed and annotated. BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, CHILDBIRTH, DEATH: these are the milestones of life, invariably marked by a feast or comforting rituals founded on food and drink. Some of these habits flourished, then died away – think of the cups of wine passed around the gossips gathered at a lying in; others have gone on to be industries in their own right – the wedding cake, which has slowly but surely evolved from the giant flat discs of bride cake illustrated in the sensational full-colour cover of a fête in Bermondsey by Hofnagel in the seventeenth century, to the many-tiered and icing-bedaubed monuments of today.","brand":"Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062828286192,"sku":"9781903018170","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781903018170_p0.jpg?v=1763613496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781903018170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}