1. Bread and Death: Food and Peasant Rituals in Italy -- 2. The Two Faces of Time: The City Calendar and the Country Calendar -- 3. The Setting of the Moon: Wine, the Vine and the New Science -- 4. Food and Popular Culture -- 5. Dietary Geography and Social History --6. City Cooking and Country Cooking -- 7. Bourgeois Cooking in the Nineteenth Century: Between Tradition and Renewal -- 8. Concentrated Broth -- 9. The Demon of the Hearth -- 10. Shopping for Food -- 11. The Age of the Soya Bean -- 12. The Great Transformation --13. Born under Libra -- App. 1: Diet and Literature --App. 2: List of Authors