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Dining on Turtles : Food Feasts and Drinking in History - D. Kirkby

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Dining on Turtles

Food Feasts and Drinking in History

By: D. Kirkby (Editor), T. Luckins (Editor)

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Hardcover | 13 November 2007 | Edition Number 1

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When the gentlemen of the Royal Society in London sat down to their turtle dinner in 1793 they were participating in an historical event: an act simultaneously of fine dining and colonialism. Feasting and drinking, the communities in which they occurred, and larger themes of historical significance are explored here in case studies from the banquets in Ancient Rome through to dinners at the Olympic Games in twentieth-century Melbourne. These histories illuminate food and drink's value in offering new insights into the past.

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Non-Fiction Cooking, Food & Drink History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History General & World History Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

List of Figures and Map	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in History	p. 1
Feasting Past and Present
Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception	p. 15
Food and Feast as Propaganda in Late Renaissance Italy	p. 33
Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and the Celebration of Scottishness in the Nineteenth Century	p. 46
Moose-Nose and Buffalo Hump: The Amerindian-European Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade to 1840	p. 64
Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956	p. 82
Food, Drink and Community
Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural France	p. 103
The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe	p. 121
'Beer, Women and Grub': Pubs, Food and the Industrial Working Class	p. 136
Community Cookbooks, Women and the 'Building of the Civil Society' in Australia, 1900-38	p. 154
Remembering Cyprus: 'Traditional' Cypriot Cooking and Food Prepartion Practices in the Memories of Greek Cypriot Emigrants	p. 171
'Just Sugar'? Food and Landscape along Queensland's Sunshine Coast	p. 188
Index	p. 206
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