Aguecheek's beef, belch's hiccup, and other gastronomic interjections : literature, culture, and food among the early moderns / Robert Appelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appelbaum, Robert, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in literature.

Food--Social aspects.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We didn't always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup tells the story of how early modern Europeans put food into words and words into food, and created an experience all their own. Named after characters in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, this lively study draws on sources ranging from cookbooks to comic novels, and examines both the highest ideals of culinary culture and its most grotesque, ridiculous and pathetic expressions. Robert Appelbaum paints a vivid picture of a world in which food was many things-from a symbol of prestige and sociability to a cause for religious and economic struggle-but always represented the primacy of materiality in life. Peppered with illustrations and a handful of recipes, Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup will appeal to anyone interested in early modern literature or the history of food.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Texts

Chapter One. Aguecheek's Beef, Hamlet's Baked Meat

Chapter Two. The Sensational Science

Chapter Three. The Cookbook as Literature

Chapter Four. The Food of Wishes, from Cockaigne to Utopia

Chapter Five. Food of Regret

Chapter Six. Belch's Hiccup

Chapter Seven. Cannibals and Missionaries

Conclusion. Crusoe's Friday, Rousseau's Émile

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-361) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959043

9781281959041

1281959049

9780226021287

0226021289

OCLC:

476227760