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As long as we both shall eat : a history of wedding food and feasts / Claire Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, Claire, author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Weddings.
- Food habits.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
- Summary:
- As Long as we Both Shall Eat is a culinary history of wedding feasts.Examining the various food customs associated with weddings in America and around the world, Claire Stewart not only provides a rich account of the foods most loved and frequently served at wedding celebrations, she also offers a glimpse into the customs and celebrations.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction to the Menu
- 1 A Brief History of Wedding Feasts
- 2 Famous and Infamous Feasts
- 3 The Last Hooray
- 4 Showers of Food, Showers of Gifts
- 5 Table Manners Matter
- 6 Chicken or Beef?
- 7 Jumping the Broom
- 8 What Are You?
- 9 Dating and Dining
- 10 Champagne Anyone?
- 11 Let Them Have Wedding Cake
- 12 Do Me a Favor and Get Me Some Rice
- 13 Honeymoons and Food
- 14 The Business of Love
- 15 What's Cooking Now?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 16, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4422-5714-8
- OCLC:
- 965922577
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