Review of Nicholas Trépanier, Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia. A New Social History, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, 261 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4773- 0992-6.

he phrasing of the title “Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia. A New Social History” and the preliminary browsing of the book make the reader hope for an original, source-based, interdisciplinary study of a unique and demand-ing topic located at the intersection of cultural, literary, and social history. In this context, the oversimplified way in which the list of chapters of the book is arranged appears a little surprising. Aside from the “Introduction” and “Conclu-sions” it includes “Food production”, “Food exchanges”, “Food Consumption”, and “Food and religion”. Such an arrangement tells little about the contents of the book and does not reflect the thematic sections and subsections into which the chapters of the book are actually divided.The objectives of the study as presented b