Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. The early diet: 1. Farming and gathering: grain and game; 2. Salt: a major extractive industry; 3. Drink: ale and alchemy; Part II. State appetite, peasant diet: 4. Controls and code: the seventeenth century; 5. Steppes and counter-measures: the eighteenth century; 6. Tea and temperance; Part III. Rural diets on the eve of change: 7. The established pattern; 8. Tavern and treasury; 9. Good time and bad; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Bread and Salt - a literal translation of the Russian word for hospitality - explores the social and economic implications of eating and drinking in Russia in the thousand years before 1900.