Dining on turtles : food feasts and drinking in history / edited by Diane Kirkby and Tanja Luckins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirkby, Diane Elizabeth.

Luckins, Tanja.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--History.

Food habits.

History.

Food--Social aspects.

Food.

Drinking customs--History.

Drinking customs.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Feasting in Renaissance Italy, Ancient Rome, or the colonial working-class pub, on North American moose or Caribbean turtle; this is social and cultural history in a new and exciting form. Dining on Turtles traverses time and place to open up food and drink as a field of historical enquiry. In chapters covering the heritage landscapes of sugarcane fields, the reform of popular drinking customs, the importance of eating and drinking culture to Olympic Games planning, and the significance of cookbooks to civic society, historians here break new ground in locating food's importance in history. From the exploration of French tavern rituals, Scottish feasting on haggis, and memories of food traditions in Cyprus, come themes of identity and nationalism, tradition, symbolism, and historical change.

Contents:

Of turtles, dining and the importance of history in food, food in history / Diane Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Barbara Santich

Banquets in ancient Rome : participation, presentation and perception / Beryl Rawson

Food and feast as propaganda in late Renaissance Italy / Ken Albala

Feasting on national identity : whisky, haggis and the celebration of Scottishness in the nineteenth century / Alex Tyrrell, Patricia Hill and Diane Kirkby

Moose-nose and buffalo hump : the Amerindian-European food exchange in the British North American fur trade to 1840 / George Colpitts

Competing for cultural honours : cosmopolitanism, food, drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 / Tanja Luckins

Cider, oysters and tavern sociability : ritual, violence and young men in early modern rural France / John Cashmere

The reform of popular drinking in late medieval and early modern Europe / A. Lynn Martin

'Beer, women and grub' : pubs, food and the industrial working class / Diane Kirkby

Community cookbooks, women and the 'building of the civil society' in Australia, 1900-38 / Sarah Black

Remembering Cyprus : 'traditional' Cypriot cooking and food preparation practices in the memories of Greek Cypriot emigrants / Tina Kalivas

'Just sugar'? food and landscape along Queensland's sunshine coast / Chris McConville.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230517153

9780230517158

OCLC:

173299130

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