Dining on Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History

by Diane Kirkby (Editor)

Other authorsTanja Luckins (Editor)
PDF, 2007

Publication

Palgrave Macmillan (2007)

Notes

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in History

PART I: Feasting Past and Present
1 Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception
2 Food and Feast as Propaganda in Late Renaissance Italy
3 Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and the Celebration of Scottishness in the Nineteenth Century
4 Moose-Nose and Buffalo Hump: The Amerindian-European Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade to 1840
5 Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956

PART II: Food, Drink and Community
6 Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural France
7 The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
8 ‘Beer, Women and Grub’: Pubs, Food and the Industrial Working Class
9 Community Cookbooks, Women and the ‘Building of the Civil Society’ in Australia, 1900–38
10 Remembering Cyprus: ‘Traditional’ Cypriot Cooking and Food Preparation Practices in the Memories of Greek Cypriot Emigrants
11 ‘Just Sugar’? Food and Landscape along Queensland’s Sunshine Coast
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