Intro; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Montserrat Piera; Part I: Connections and Transitions in Muslim, Hebrew, and Christian Communities; Chapter 1. From Kitāb al-tabīj to the Llibre de Sent Soví: Continuities and Shifts in the Earliest Iberian Cooking Manuals / Carolyn A. Nadeau; Chapter 2. Food and Death: Foodways and Communities in the Danza general de la muerte / Michelle M. Hamilton and María Morrás; Chapter 3. "Los que comedes mi pan": Food References in the Romancero / Hilary Pomeroy

Chapter 4. Magical Morsels: Food in Morisco Aljamiado Incantations / Veronica MenaldiPart II: Food Choices: Ideals and Practices in Monastic and Lay Communities; Chapter 5. Notions of Nutrition and the Properties of Food in the Middle Ages / Donna M. Rogers; Chapter 6. Alleviating Hunger without Pleasing the Palate: The Dietetic Proposal of the Cistercian Order in the First Half of the Twelfth Century / Antoni Riera i Melis; Chapter 7. Salty, Sweet, and Spicy: Flavors in Benedictine Cuisine in Catalonia at the End of the Middle Ages / Ramón A. Banegas López

Chapter 8. Breaking Nonnatural Bread: Alimentary Hygiene and Radical Individualism in Juan de Aviñon's Medicina sevillana / Michael SolomonChapter 9. Eating for Success: Where, When, and What to Eat in Early Modern Spain / Patricia Moore-Martínez; Part III: Food as Fetish: Gendering Sexual Desire through Food; Chapter 10. "A Whim for Strawberries": At the Literary Table in Les quinze joies de mariage / Nelly Labère; Chapter 11. Have a Heart!: Love, Lust, and the Properties of Heart Consumption from Guillem de Cabestany to Curial e Güelfa / Montserrat Piera

Chapter 12. Aphrodisiacs in Medieval Iberian Texts / Amy I. AronsonChapter 13. Gendering Fasting: The Medieval Battles of Flesh and Lent / Ana Pairet; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index