Crazy Feasts

Dive into "CRAZY FEASTS," a unique culinary history cookbook exploring ten bizarre banquets from the Roman Empire to the 21st century. From Rome to Mexico City, discover feasts that blend historical fact and imaginative flair. Each chapter provides background on the location and era, setting the stage for the extravagant menus served. Followed by authentic recipes, this book celebrates human extravagance and encourages readers to host their own whimsical banquets. Embrace the joy of culinary madness with "CRAZY FEASTS."

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About the Author: Marilyn Ravicz
Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz is a retired Cultural Anthropologist who enjoys writing about food, foreign adventures and historical times of interest both as fiction and non-fiction.

After a long life of study, work, degree gathering at Harvard and UCLA, plus marriage and family activities, she wandered the world with her Anthropologist husband to learn first hand about the different ways of living our human heritage enjoys. Marilyn's experience have been described in a series of books and articles. Join her in reading about them, and then create some similar pleasures for yourself and your friends. Marilyn now lives in the California desert town, Palm Springs, and observes the coyotes and their friends for the fun and pleasure of learning their ways of living. What has she learned from all this? We live in a beautiful world, so care for our only 'blue dot' in the universe and enjoy it well and long.
CRAZY FEASTS is a culinary history cookbook that includes descriptions of ten banquets that were quite crazy or bizarre in several senses. Each feast is preceded by a short description of the location and historical setting in order to give a background for the dishes served, as well as for the particular kind of craziness involved.

The feasts vary in historical depth from the Roman Empire period to the first decades of the twenty-first century. The locations include cities from Rome to other European capitals, as well as Mexico City, when it was called Tenochtitlan as the Spanish conquistadores entered it in the early sixteenth century. Each feast described was either an actual historical incident, or is an imagined banquet that could well have occurred given the culture and habits of the time.

Each feast described is followed by recipes garnered from that culture and historical period. CRAZY FEASTS is a salute to human folly and the happy circumstances of glorious banquets meant to stimulate your sense of fun and folly should you decide to create a crazy feast of your own.

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