This chronology is the sixth in a series of publications on comparative food culture.
Having previously examined Japanese food culture in the Jomon era to Azuchi-Momoyama era, Edo era, Meiji and Taisyo eras and Showa era, this installment of the series will cover the food culture on the Europe and American continent from ancient to AD1600. The countries included as an area of Europe were selected as defined and designated by “MILIONE ZENSEKAI JITEN (Japanese Version of II Milione, Enciclopedia di Tutti i Paesi del Monde)” published by Gakusyukenkyu-sya. The time of this chronology covers the period through AD1600, also considered to be the end of Medieval period.
The authors have compiled information on 400 chronological items from 107 print publications. In this chronology, food culture phenomenon is classified in the same manner as that of the previous papers in this series.
