Food, drink and identity in Europe
By: edited by Thomas M. Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-
Series: European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics -- 22; European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) -- 22.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789042020863
Subjects: Food -- Social aspects -- Europe.; Cookery -- Social aspects -- Europe.; Food habits -- Social aspects -- Europe.; Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- Europe.; National characteristics, European.; Group identity -- Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Food, drink and identity in Europe : consumption and the construction of local, national and cosmopolitan culture / Thomas M. Wilson; title: Food, phagophobia and English national identity / Menno Spiering; title: From whiskey to famine : food and intercultural encounters in Irish history / Joep Leerssen; title: Diet and modernization in the Netherlands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Michael Wintle; title: HItting the bar : alcohol, football identities and global flows in Norway / Gary Armstrong and Hans Hognestad; title: "Social wine" : ethnic identity and wine consumption in the Basque diaspora in Barcelona (Spain) / F. Xavier Medina; title: Journeys through "ingestible topography" : socializing the "situated eater" in France / Wendy L.H. Leynse; title: The quest for quality : food and the notion of "trust" in the Gers area in France / Karen Montagne; title: Food fights at the EU table : the gastronomic assertion of Italian distinctiveness / Erick Castellanos and Sara M. Bergstresser; title: Food, national identity, and emergent Europeanness at the European Space Agency / Stacia E. Zabusky.