Titlebook: Dining On Turtles; Food Feasts and Drin Diane Kirkby (Reader in History),Tanja Luckins (re Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macm

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Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in Historyrticipating in an act of colonialism. Turtle soup was all the rage in England in the eighteenth century. By the second half of the eighteenth century turtle was recognised as ‘a(chǎn) key dish of grand English cuisine’, with the first recipes for turtle having appeared by 1750.. Hannah Glasse explained ‘H

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Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perceptiont Rome immediately summons up perceptions, in many modern minds, of excess and decadence. The source of these perceptions is something of a puzzle — a historiographical puzzle.. ‘How do we know?’ or ‘How do we think we know?’ are questions which will resonate throughout this book, but let us confron

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Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and the Celebration of Scottishness in the Nineteenth their assertion of national identity through the celebration of distinctive food and drink. The most evident indications of this alimentary nationalism are the suppers which are held in honour of Scotland’s poet, Robert Burns, and occur today wherever Scots and the descendants of Scots live and work

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Moose-Nose and Buffalo Hump: The Amerindian-European Food Exchange in the British North American Furde of cooking, that a long time may elapse without a repetition of dishes’. In this, one of many descriptions of food in the fur trade, Robertson drew from his years of service to note the surprising range and variety of meat food sources deep in the North American interior. His post was ‘well stock

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Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956to follow this trend, evaluating the ‘quality’ of cuisine and fine dining alone. Examining a moment of internationalism in the 1956 Olympic Games allows the food cultures of postwar Melbourne to be considered within a broader conceptual framework — cosmopolitanism. Why did Melburnians link ‘continen

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Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural Franceeart of many social problems, from domestic violence to poor health. The purpose of this chapter is to examine eating and drinking in early modern rural France in a tavern setting, and to explore some of the behaviours which this setting facilitated. Young village males, as they reached their late t

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The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europecohol in the form of wine, ale, and beer was a necessary component of most people’s diet — not as important as bread, but in the words of an Italian historian of ‘prima ma non primissima necessità’ — ’prime but not primest necessity’.. Alcohol was also a fundamental part of the medical pharmacopeaia

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Community Cookbooks, Women and the ‘Building of the Civil Society’ in Australia, 1900–38al and political identity and the function of social and community groups. The community cookbook genre has its origins in the United States Civil War, and was well established in North America by the 1870s. It is quite likely the idea came to Australia with the 1891 publication, in Sydney, of a Can