This 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...