Feasting on North American moose or Caribbean turtle in Renaissance Italy, Ancient Rome, or the colonial working-class pub, is Social and Cultural history in a new and exciting form. Dining on Turtles traverses time and place to open up food and drink as a new field of historical enquiry. In chapters covering the heritage landscapes of sugar canefields, the reform of popular drinking customs, the importance of eating and drinking culture to Olympic Games planning, and the significance of cookbooks to civic society, historians here break new ground in locating food's importance. From the exploration of French tavern rituals, Scottish feasting on haggis, and memories of food traditions in Cyprus come themes of identity and nationalism, change and continuity.
Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in History; D.E.Kirkby, T.Luckins & B.Santich
PART I: Feasting Past and Present
Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception; B.Rawson
Food and Feasts as Propaganda in Late Renaissance Italy; K.Albala
Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and Celebrations of Scottishness in the Nineteenth Century; A.Tyrrell, P.Hill & D.Kirkby
Moose Nose and Buffalo Hump: Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade, 1780-1840; G.Colpitts
Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956; T.Luckins
PART II: Food, Drink and Community
Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural France; J.Cashmere
The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; A.L.Martin
'Beer, Women and Grub': Pubs, Food and the Industrial Working Class; D.Kirkby
Community Cookbooks, Women and the 'Building of Civil Society', Australia, 1900-1938; S.Black
Remembering Cyprus: 'Traditional' Cooking and Food Preparation in the Memories of Greek Cypriot Emigrants; T.Kalivas
'Just Sugar?' Food and Landscape along Queensland's Sunshine Coast; C.McConville
DIANE KIRKBY is a Reader in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches an undergraduate subject on food and drink history. She has written a prize-winning biography, Alice Henry: the Power of Pen and Voice and extensively on women working, gender, pubs and drinking culture including Barmaids.
TANJA LUCKINS is a cultural historian. She is the author of prize-winning The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War and co-editor of GO!: Melbourne in the Sixties.
Together they are writing a history of the Australian pub.
Description
Feasting on North American moose or Caribbean turtle in Renaissance Italy, Ancient Rome, or the colonial working-class pub, is Social and Cultural history in a new and exciting form. Dining on Turtles traverses time and place to open up food and drink as a new field of historical enquiry. In chapters covering the heritage landscapes of sugar canefields, the reform of popular drinking customs, the importance of eating and drinking culture to Olympic Games planning, and the significance of cookbooks to civic society, historians here break new ground in locating food's importance. From the exploration of French tavern rituals, Scottish feasting on haggis, and memories of food traditions in Cyprus come themes of identity and nationalism, change and continuity.
Contents
Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in History; D.E.Kirkby, T.Luckins & B.Santich
PART I: Feasting Past and Present
Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception; B.Rawson
Food and Feasts as Propaganda in Late Renaissance Italy; K.Albala
Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and Celebrations of Scottishness in the Nineteenth Century; A.Tyrrell, P.Hill & D.Kirkby
Moose Nose and Buffalo Hump: Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade, 1780-1840; G.Colpitts
Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956; T.Luckins
PART II: Food, Drink and Community
Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural France; J.Cashmere
The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; A.L.Martin
'Beer, Women and Grub': Pubs, Food and the Industrial Working Class; D.Kirkby
Community Cookbooks, Women and the 'Building of Civil Society', Australia, 1900-1938; S.Black
Remembering Cyprus: 'Traditional' Cooking and Food Preparation in the Memories of Greek Cypriot Emigrants; T.Kalivas
'Just Sugar?' Food and Landscape along Queensland's Sunshine Coast; C.McConville
Authors
DIANE KIRKBY is a Reader in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches an undergraduate subject on food and drink history. She has written a prize-winning biography, Alice Henry: the Power of Pen and Voice and extensively on women working, gender, pubs and drinking culture including Barmaids.
TANJA LUCKINS is a cultural historian. She is the author of prize-winning The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War and co-editor of GO!: Melbourne in the Sixties.
Together they are writing a history of the Australian pub.
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