Title:
Harvest of the cold months : the social history of ice and ices
JLCTITLE245:
Elizabeth David ; edited by Jill Norman.
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Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1995.
Physical Description:
xvii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780670859757
Abstract:
"From sixteenth-century Italy and the splendor of the Medici banquets to seventeenth-century France and the Sun King, from travelers' tales of snow pits and ice houses in Persia to the sherbet trade with the Levant to the use of ice as "table jewelry," and from the influential ice trade in Boston to the growth of the ice cream business in London, this impressive books brings alive the centuries in which ice, far from being a commonplace, was a subject that inspired and challenged the human imagination."--Jacket.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Introduction / Jill Norman -- Florence. Snows of Yesteryear. Buontalenti's Ice Pools. The 'Quinta Essentia'. Shine White Diamant Ice -- Ice-houses and Sherbets: Tales from Turkey and the Medici Legend -- Perpetual Snow -- Icemen of the Seventeenth Century. Table Jewellery. A Trifling Invention -- Ices for the Sun King. Audiger's Tale. Snow or Concrete? -- The Limonadiers of Paris and the Cafe Procope -- Neiges, Sorbets, Glaces, Fromages -- Ices Under the Volcano. Cinnamon Bricks and Candied Eggs. The Sherbet Trade with the Levant. In Sickness and in Health. The Queen's Ice Pail Maker. Days of Snow and Ices -- A Persian Tale. Ice for Isfahan. Luxuries for the Road. Snow upon the Desert's Dusty Face. Snow for a Fever. Ices in Porcelain Basins -- Cathay to Caledonia -- To India's Coral Strand. Ice by Elephant, Ice by Tribute. Ice by Evaporation, Ice by Absorption. Calcutta's Crystal Palace. Better than a Doctor. The Ice Was Here, the Ice Was There. Forgotten Things.
Ices in a Cold Climate. Winter's Dark Prisons. Cutting the Solid Pond. Ten Thousand Ice Cellars. Moscow and London -- The London Confectioners. All Sorts of Ice. From Greenland's Icy Seas. The Inventors versus the Wenham Lakes. Bomba. Shapes of Crystal -- To Cool the Air: Ice Pillars and Lily Ponds.