{"product_id":"feast-a-history-of-grand-eating-9780151007585","title":"Feast: A History of Grand Eating","description":"\u003cp\u003eSharing a grand meal has always been a complex social event. Feasts have been used to celebrate significant occasions  to parade rank and hierarchy  and to flatter and influence people. There has always been a theatrical element to the feast as well-from the nude dancers who entertained dinner guests in ancient Greece to the restrained rigors of the Victorian dinner party. Sir Roy Strong examines this cultural phenomenon with knowledge  wit  and style-beginning with the ninth century B.C.  when a Babylonian emperor discreetly invited seventy thousand guests for a ten-day celebration  and ending early in the twentieth century  by which time feasts had become somewhat more modest. Always attuned to how these celebrations mirror the societies that hold them and to the way they reflect shifts in power and class  this beautifully illustrated book offers a lively and illuminating history of grand eating. .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650522800181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0151007586","price":65.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780151007585.jpg?v=1781798968","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/feast-a-history-of-grand-eating-9780151007585","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}