A fresh approach to the implications of obtaining, preparing, and consuming food, concentrating on the little-investigated routines of everyday life.

Introduction
The symbolic world of food
Food knowledge: texts, feasts, and objects
Food words and Old English genres
The quernstone
Pots for cooking and storage
Food objects in iron
Food objects in wood
Food officers in Handbooks of penance
Laws, food, and settlement change
Fasting and the Anglo-Saxon "fish-event horizon"
Conclusion: Food, Eating and Identity: Anglo-Saxons at the table
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