Royal taste
Subtitle: food, power and status at the European courts after 1789
By: [edited by] Daniëlle de Vooght
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780754668374; 9780754694786
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical models of food and power in European courts of the nineteenth century : an expository essay and prologue / Kenneth Albala; title: A culinary captatio benevolentiae : the use of the truffle as a promotional gift by the Savoy dynasty in the eighteenth century / Rengenier Rittersma; title: Drinking for approval : wine and the British court from George III to Victoria and Albert / Charles C. Ludington; title: Food at the Russian court and the homes of the imperial Russian elite, sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries / David I. Burrow; title: Pilaf and bouchées : the modernization of official banquets at the Ottoman palace in the nineteenth century / Özge Samanci; title: The ceremony of dining at Napoléon III's court between 1852 and 1870 / Anne Lair; title: Culinary networks of power in a nineteenth century court society : dining with the kings of the Belgians (1831-1909) / Daniëlle De Vooght.