Rus' za trapezoi - Zankov D.

How did our ancestors perceive food and everything related to it? What was eating for them? What rituals did they follow? What was the attitude to fasting and abstinence? What food was considered prestigious and vice versa? How honorable was the cooking? What products were forbidden on the table of the Russian man and what was the reason for this? How was the food of strangers perceived? Why were there fears that its use could lead an Orthodox person to fall away from the "true faith"? What did foreigners see russian table customs, what were their feelings about Russian cuisine? And what is Russian food culture in general and what are its peculiarities? To these and many other questions seeks and finds answers candidate of historical sciences Dmitry zankov. To do this, it attracts many historical sources: from the widely distributed In Russia Byzantine texts to the actual Russian lives, teachings and sermons, as well as the testimonies of foreigners.