Edible histories, cultural politics : towards a Canadian food history / edited by Franca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek, Marlene Epp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iacovetta, Franca, Author.

Contributor:

Iacovetta, Franca, 1957- editor.

Korinek, Valerie J., 1965- editor.

Epp, Marlene, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Canada--History.

Food habits.

Food--Canada--History.

Food.

Food--Social aspects--Canada--History.

Food--Political aspects--Canada--History.

Canada--Social life and customs.

Canada.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sophisticated, culturally sensitive, and accessible, Edible Histories will appeal to students, historians, and foodies alike.

Contents:

Part One : Cultural Exchanges and Cuisines in the Contact Zone. 1. 'Fit for the table of the most fastidious epicure': Culinary Colonialism in the Upper Canadian Contact Zone / Alison Norman

2. 'The snipe were good and the wine not bad': Enabling Public Life for Privileged Men / Julia Roberts

3. The Role of Food in Canadian Expressions of Christianity / Michel Desjardins and Ellen Desgardins.

Part Two : Regional Food Identities and Traditions. 4. Pine-clad hills and spindrift swirl: The Character, Persistence, and Significance of Rural Newfoundland Foodways / Maura Hanrahan

5. Stocking the Root Cellar: Foodscapes in the Peace River Region / Megan J. Davies

6. Rational Meals for the Traditional Family: Nutrition in Quebec School Manuals, 1900-1960 / Caroline Durand.

Part Three : Foodways and Memories in Ethnic and Racial Communities. 7. 'We Didn't Have A Lot of Money, But We Had Food': Ukrainians and Their Depression-Era Food Memories / Stacey Zembrzycki

8. Feeding the Dead: The Ukrainian Food Colossi of the Canadian Prairies / Holyck Hunchuck

9. Toronto's Multicultured Tongues: Stories of South Asian Cuisines / Julie Mehta.

Part Four : Gendering Food in Cookbooks and Family Spaces. 10. More than 'just' Recipes: Mennonite Cookbooks in Mid-twentieth Century North America / Marlene Epp

11. Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and the Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal / Andrea Eidinger

12. 'Tutti a Tavola!' Feeding the Family in Two Generations of Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal / Sonia Cancian.

Part Five : Single Food Commodities, Markets, and Cultural Debates. 13. John Bull and Sons: The Empire Marketing Board and the Creation of a British Imperial Food System / James Murton

14. Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec / Nathalie Cooke.

Part Six : Protests, Mindful Eating, and the Politics of Food. 15. The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s / Julie Guard

16. 'Less Inefficiency, More Milk': The Politics of Food and the Culture of the English-Canadian University, 1900-1950 / Catherine Gidney

17. The Granola High: Eating Differently in the 1960s and 1970s / Catherine Carsstairs

18. 'Meat Stinks/Eat Beef Dyke!': Coming out as a Vegetarian in the Prairies / Valerie J. Korinek.

Part Seven : National Identities and Cultural Spectacles. 19. Nationalism on the Menu: Three Banquets on the 1939 Royal Tour / Molly Pulver Ungar

20. Food Acts and Cultural Politics: Women and the Gendered Dialectics of Culinary Pluralism at the International Institute of Toronto, 1950s-1960s / Franca Jacovetta.

Part Eight : Marketing and Imposing Nutritional Standards. 21. Vim, Vigour and Vitality: 'Power' Foods for Kids in Canadian Popular Magazines, 1914-1954 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

22. Making and Breaking Canada's Food Rules: Science, the State, and the Government of Nutrition, 1942-1949 / Ian Mosby

23. 'A National Priority': Nutrition Canada's Survey and the Disciplining of Aboriginal Bodies, 1964-75 / Krista Walters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-6151-8

1-4426-6150-X

OCLC:

826855598