Dining on turtles
Subtitle: food feasts and drinking in history
By: edited by Diane Kirkby and Tanja Luckins
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Food; Social aspects; Food habits; Drinking customs; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of turtles, dining and the importance of history in food, food in history / Diane E. Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Barbara Santich; title: Banquets in ancient Rome : participation, presentation and perception / Beryl Rawson; title: Food and feasts as propaganda in late renaissance Italy / Ken Albala; title: Feasting on national identity : whisky, haggis and celebrations of scottishness in the nineteenth century / Alex Tyrrell, Patricia Hill and Diane Kirkby; title: Moose nose and buffalo hump : food exchange in the British North American fur trade, 1780-1840 / George Colpitts; title: Competing for cultural honours : cosmopolitanism, food, drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 / Tanja Luckins; title: Cider, oysters and tavern sociability : ritual, violence and young men in early modern rural France / John Cashmere; title: The reform of popular drinking in late medieval and early modern Europe / A. Lynn Martin; title: Beer, women and grub : pubs, food and the industrial working class / Diane E. Kirkby; title: Community cookbooks, women and the "building of civil society", Australia, 1900-38 / Sarah Black; title: Remembering Cyprus : "traditional" cooking and food preparation in the memories of Greek Cypriot emigrants / Tina Kalivas; title: Just sugar : food and landscape along Queensland's sunshine coast / Chris McConville.