Royal taste : food, power and status at the European courts after 1789 / edited by Daniëlle de Vooght.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vooght, Daniëlle de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Europe--History--19th century.

Food habits.

Dinners and dining--Political aspects--Europe--History--19th century.

Dinners and dining.

Courts and courtiers--Europe--History--19th century.

Courts and courtiers.

Political culture--Europe--History--19th century.

Political culture.

History.

Europe--History--1789-1900.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011]

Contents:

The historical models of food and power in European courts of the nineteenth century : an expository essay and prologue / Kenneth Albala

A culinary captatio benevolentiae : the use of the truffle as a promotional gift by the Savoy dynasty in the eighteenth century / Rengenier Rittersma

Drinking for approval : wine and the British court from George III to Victoria and Albert / Charles C. Ludington

Food at the Russian court and the homes of the imperial Russian elite, sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries / David I. Burrow

Pilaf and bouchées : the modernization of official banquets at the Ottoman palace in the nineteenth century / Özge Samanci

The ceremony of dining at Napoléon III's court between 1852 and 1870 / Anne Lair

Culinary networks of power in a nineteenth century court society : dining with the kings of the Belgians (1831-1909) / Daniëlle De Vooght.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754668374

0754668371

9780754694786

075469478X

OCLC:

663773473