Publication date: 2008-02-26
Dewey code: 394.12
List Price: $37.00
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Review EARLY AMERICAN TABLE: Food and Society in the New World / Northern Illinois Univ Pr:An exploration in the history of biopolitics, The Early American Table offers a unique study of the ways in which English colonists in North America incorporated the "you are what you eat" philosophy into their conception of themselves and their proper place in society. Eden aptly demonstrates that ideas about the body ideas that may seem irrelevant or even laughable today not only guided day-to-day personal behavior but also influenced society and politics. According to the 17th- and 18th-century understanding of the body, food affected the blood, bones, mind, and spirit in ways other social markers (e. g. clothes, manners, speech) did not because food was directly assimilated by the consumer. A plentiful, varied diet of high-quality refined foods created virtuous, refined individuals fit to govern society. In contrast, a more restricted diet of poor quality, coarse foods made an individual coarse, even beastly, and unfit to lead. In the Old World, especially before 1600, poverty, legal restrictions, and the scarcity of land prohibited most individuals from purchasing or raising foods believed to produce refinement and virtue. Only the wealthy were able to enjoy such a diet. In turn, this elite diet marked their social status and reaffirmed their entitlement to power. [+]The English men and women who colonized North America throughout the colonial period held the idea that diet shaped character. After only a few decades of settlement, many of them enjoyed the unprecedented prosperity enabled by the fertile environment. Lower and middling families could set their tables with a greater variety and higher quality of food than their social counterparts in England. As a result, in contrast to England where an aristocrat s dinner was far different than a laborer s, in America, the differences between the diets of artisans and urban laborers, of plantation owners and small farmers, were not as great. In short, the American diet was a democratic diet that had social and political consequences.
Creator: Louis A. Pitschmann
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-11-30
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $44.95
Price: $33.46
Review Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America / University of Wisconsin Press:Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie is the reprint of a best-selling nineteenth-century German cookbook that was adapted for Germans living in America. As several German-language editions were published in Milwaukee, the recipes and other information evolved considerably, and the book was eventually translated into English with the title Practical Cookbook. The result is a fascinating mix of recipes from Old and New Worlds, ranging from traditional German fare (see the Beef Rouladen) to very American dishes (try the version of Strawberry Shortcake) to frontier cuisine-how about some roasted beaver tails? In addition to such culinary delights, Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie offers a glimpse into life in a nineteenth-century immigrant household and how immigrants tried to preserve the old ways while adapting to a new environment. Features of the cookbook include advice on how to use such "new" ingredients as corn or equipment like the Dutch oven, and how to shop in America, grow a proper kitchen garden, preserve food, cook medicinal dishes, and entertain properly. Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie offers authentic immigrant recipes in their cultural, social, and historical context. It is a delightful resource for epicures with a historical bent as well as for those who enjoy learning more about the day-to-day life of their ancestors. Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.
Publication date: 2001-09-01
Dewey code: 301
List Price: $105.00
Price: $32.97
Review Remembrance of Repasts / Berg Publishers:Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing commodification and globalization of food mean for our capacity to store the past in our meals ñ in the smell of olive oil or the taste of a fresh-cut fig?This book offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. Sutton challenges and expands anthropology's current focus on issues of embodiment, memory and material culture, especially in relation to transnational migration and the flow of culture across borders and boundaries. The Greek island of Kalymnos in the eastern Aegean, where Islanders claim to remember meals long past - both humble and spectacular ñ provides the main setting for these issues, as well as comparative materials drawn from England and the United States. Despite the growing interest in anthropological accounts of food and in the cultural construction of memory, the intersection of food with memory has not been accorded sustained examination. Cultural practices of feasting and fasting, global flows of food as both gifts and commodities, the rise of processed food and the relationship of orally transmitted recipes to the vast market in speciality cookbooks tie traditional anthropological mainstays such as ritual, exchange and death to more current concerns with structure and history, cognition and the 'anthropology of the senses'. Arguing for the crucial role of a simultaneous consideration of food and memory, this book significantly advances our understanding of cultural processes and reformulates current theoretical preoccupations.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-03-19
Dewey code: 394.12094
List Price: $40.00
Price: $32.00
Review The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe (The Food Series) / University of Illinois Press:The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the banquets of nobles, royalty, and popes? What did they eat and how did they eat it? In The Banquet, Ken Albala covers the transitional period between the heavily spiced and colored cuisine of the Middle Ages and classical French haut cuisine. This development involved increasing use dairy products, a move toward lighter meats such as veal and chicken, increasing identification of national food customs, more sweetness and aromatics, and a refined aesthetic sense, surprisingly in line with the late Renaissance styles found in other arts.
Creator: John West-Sooby
Edition: 1st Amer. Ed
Publication date: 2004-08-30
Dewey code: 641.0160944
List Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00
Review Consuming Culture: The Arts Of The French Table / University of Delaware Press:This volumes adds to the rich tradition of exegesis on the place of food and drink in French society and culture. It deals predominantly with literary representations of eating and drinking, past and present, and covers topics ranging from gastronomy to anorexia, from sobriety to ebriety, and from overt to covert food practices. All the literary genres are represented. What emerges is an understanding of the complex nature of our relationship to food and drink and a heightened awareness of the importance of the culinary.
Publication date: 2005-11
Dewey code: 920
Price: $1.49
Review The Queen of Mold:
Publication date: 2006-07-21
Dewey code: 641.3
List Price: $60.00
Price: $40.69
Review Eating as I Go: Scenes from America and Abroad / University Press of Kentucky:What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir, Doris Friedensohn takes eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on cultural inclusion and what it means to our diverse nation. Enjoying couscous in Tunisia and khatchapuri (cheese bread) in the Republic of Georgia, she explores the ways strangers maintain their differences and come together. Friedensohn's subjects range from Thanksgiving at a Middle Eastern restaurant to fried grasshoppers in Oaxaca. Her wry dramas of the dining room, restaurant, market, and kitchen ripple with geopolitical, economic, psychological, and spiritual tensions. "Eating as I Go" is Friedensohn's distinctive combination of memoir, traveler's tale, and cultural commentary.
Creator: Gloria Brown
Publication date: 1990-05
Dewey code: 641.5
List Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00
Review The Librarian's Cookbook / Neal-Schuman Publishers:How does Lillian Gerhardt make her Oreo Cookie Ice Cream Dessert? What about Beverly Lynch's Favorite Artichoke Spread? Or Pat Schuman's Grandmother's Chicken Soup? Here are 400 librarians' favorite or family recipes with complete ingredient lists and instructions, as well as articles on Cajun cooking, cookbook collecting, chocolate, catering, cooking Pacific Northwest Style, and more. It's a perfect gift for colleagues-and ten percent of the royalties for the book are being donated to ALA's Louise Giles Minority Scholarship Fund!.
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 990
List Price: $28.00
Price: $27.99
Review One Continuous Picnic: A History of Australian Eating / Melbourne University Publishing:Australians first confronted the oddities of their national cuisine when this gastronomic classic appeared 25 years ago. Because Australia never had a peasant farming class with local cooking customs, the book explains, camp food became the mainstay of the Aussie dining tradition. Portable weekly rations of mutton, flour, and tea had turned the early settlers into a mobile army, and their suburbanite descendants still survive on tins of jam, condensed milk, camp pie, and beer. A cry for action, the book successfully launched a new Australian taste for fresh produce, farm markets, and international flavors more than two decades—one that still exists today.
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $43.95
Price: $29.61
Review Cakes And Ale: A Dissertation On Banquets; Interspersed With Various Recipes, More Or Less Original, And Anecdotes, Mainly Veracious (1913) / Kessinger Publishing, LLC:
Authors
- Johnna H. Holloway
- Constance B. Hieatt
- J. Terry Nutter
Dewey code: 641.59420902
List Price: $29.00
Price: $29.00
Review Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) / Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S:
Creator: Claire Catterall
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 641.3
Price: $35.00
Review Food: Design and Culture / Laurence King:
Publication date: 1992
Review Confessions of a restauranteur / The Author:
Creator: Lawrence C. Rubin
Publication date: 2008-04-18
Dewey code: 394.12
List Price: $35.00
Price: $29.75
Review Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture / McFarland:Historically, few topics have attracted as much scholarly, professional, or popular attention as food and eating-as one might expect, considering the fundamental role of food in basic human survival. Almost daily, a new food documentary, cooking show, diet program, food guru, or eating movement arises to challenge yesterday's dietary truths and the ways we think about dining. This work brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating practices, contemporary and historic, local and global. Nineteen essays cover a vast array of food-related topics, including the ever-increasing problems of agricultural globalization, the contemporary mass-marketing of a formerly grassroots movement for organic food production, the Food Network's successful mediation of social class, the widely popular phenomenon of professional competitive eating and current trends in "culinary tourism" and fast food advertising.
Publication date: 1985
Review Les Francais et la table: Musee national des arts et traditions populaires, 20 novembre 1985-21 avril 1986 / Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux:
Publication date: 2007-05-15
List Price: $27.99
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Review Malos tragos/The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones / Rba:Bestselling chef and host of "No Reservations" has never been one to pull punches. In his latest work, he serves up a well-seasoned "hellbroth" of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Description in Spanish: Con audacia y esfuerzo, Bourdain, como buen chef que es, nos presenta en esta obra un banquete divertido sobre sus anos de cocina y viajes. Ordenada segun los gustos basicos: salado, dulce, acido, amargo y umami (un termino japones para un gusto que desafia cualquier descripcion), esta coleccion de anecdotas nos muestra el buen paladar de Bourdain, su gran sentido de la aventura y su buena escritura. Es este un caldo bien sazonado de historias sinceras, a menudo escandalosas, sobre sus aventuras y desventuras por todo el mundo. Gorroneando una anguila en las calles de Hanoi, revelando los aspectos mas poco glamurosos de hacer television, hablando con un activista de comida crudivora o confesando un complejo de culpa por matar una langosta, Bourdain esta mas divertido que nunca. Malos tragos, recopilacion de textos periodisticos y divulgativos no incluidos en antologias anteriores, junto con algunos materiales ineditos, es un guiso ameno, descarnado e irreverente para admiradores y neofitos.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-12-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.99
Review Fabulous Lovers/Fabulous Foods / Xlibris Corporation:Young, mid-aged or vintage, three items that interest everyone are food, romance and gossip- not necessarily in that order. Fabulous Lovers / Fabulous Food embraces all three. Moving from the fictional Lady Chatterly's clandestine assignation on to the philandering of Lord Byron or Liz's Merry-marry-go-round, imagined vignettes depicting the affairs of world-class lovers are adapted to menus and recipes designed to kindle romance in any potential lover. The recipes in Fabulous Lovers / Fabulous Food adapt to a broad spectrum of romantic possibilities stretching from a woody campsite to a palatial retreat, all accompanied by the author's amusing illustrations to further encourage a romantic mode.
Publication date: 2007-04-01
Dewey code: 641.30942
List Price: $45.00
Price: $29.11
Review The Last Food of England / Ebury Press:The English tend to think that their native food has disappeared off the map completely—and in some cases it is undoubtedly endangered. But this work shines a light on what remains and highlights what could endure. The author's quest to find the "last food" in England leads to his discovery of the last domestic wood oven in use, the undertaker-cum-butcher who roasts his own oxen, the fisherman who regularly takes his life in his hands to catch oysters, green top milk being made deep in the forest, crayfish facing extinction, and four types of English butter. This wonderful voyage of discovery is an invitation to cook without recipes, travel without guides, and find history without museums.
Publication date: 2009-01
Dewey code: 641.3
List Price: $29.25
Price: $29.25
Review Genetically Modified Food: How Biotechnology Is Changing What We Eat (Science and Society) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2003-05-21
Dewey code: 641.2209469
List Price: $29.95
Price: $32.68
Review The Wines and Vineyards of Portugal (Classic Wine Library) / Mitchell Beazley:There has been a rapid transformation in Portuguese wines over the past decade. A new wave of young, forward-thinking winemakers has been coming to grips with Portugal’s unique range of grape varieties, and quality has improved dramatically. Richard Mayson, a leading authority on Portuguese wines, here provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive reference to the wide range of these vintages, including Port and Madeira.
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EARLY AMERICAN TABLE: Food and Society in the New World, Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America, Remembrance of Repasts, The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe (The Food Series), Consuming Culture: The Arts Of The French Table, The Queen of Mold, Eating as I Go: Scenes from America and Abroad, The Librarian's Cookbook, One Continuous Picnic: A History of Australian Eating, Cakes And Ale: A Dissertation On Banquets; Interspersed With Various Recipes, More Or Less Original, And Anecdotes, Mainly Veracious (1913), Concordance of English Recipes: Thirteenth Through Fifteenth Centuries (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), Food: Design and Culture, Confessions of a restauranteur, Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture, Les Francais et la table: Musee national des arts et traditions populaires, 20 novembre 1985-21 avril 1986, Malos tragos/The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones, Fabulous Lovers/Fabulous Foods, The Last Food of England, Genetically Modified Food: How Biotechnology Is Changing What We Eat (Science and Society), The Wines and Vineyards of Portugal (Classic Wine Library)Top headlines: If not for his attitude, Weis might not be on hot seat: While Charlie Weis awaits his fate at Notre Dame, Michael Rosenberg says Weis' attitude is one reason he's on the hot seat. ›00:28 01 Dec, Mon Is O.J. 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