Christmas Feasts

83 pp. "He has more to do than the ovens in England at Christmas," goes the old Italian saying. The goal of Christmas Feasts is to open those historic oven doors and serve forth rich lore, delicious recipes, and festive menus for preparing five unforgettable Yuletide feasts. In this book culinary historian Lorna J. Sass prepares you for celebrating a Roman Saturnalia (the Pagan precursor of Christmas), a medieval feast, a seventeenth-century banquet, Christmas in the Pudding Age, and a Victorian dinner. The original recipes are given along with modern-day adaptations, and each chapter is highlighted with a discussions of the holiday customs of the period, as well as engaging literary quotations. Illustrations are from The Metropolitan Museum of Art"