...This chapter explores the role of hunger in food history, and how it has led to many revelations and innovations that are often overlooked by its chroniclers. Gastronomy is in itself a product of hunger and the need to consume food, and it comes in many forms. Understanding the diversity of food...

... Peccana Regarding Hot Drinks in the Custom of the Ancient Romans Persio Salerno school Baldini Philippo De’ sorbetti Baldini eating habits eating utensils finger foods food history dining etiquette Finger food: This expression indicates today the practice of nibbling food with one’s fingers...

... in the kitchen Artusi agriculture couscous Greece ancient hunting polenta conviviality Cous Cous film Kechiche Abdellatif McDonald’s globalization home cooking McLuhan Marshall cultural identity cuisine food history historical roots dietary needs culinary traditions cultural and political...

... Burritt John Downes William Sipperly William “Gus ” Wall Benedict Wood William food history taste hunger starvation coffee tobacco Privation was not unique to Civil War prisons, but rarely in nineteenth-century America did hungry people write so much about food. As with other aspects of prison...

... living standards food history fish fruit milk street food diet dairy In the early hours, London’s food chain cranked into motion. Strong-armed men and women marched to the fields and barns that fringed the built-up city where, by moon and candlelight, they milked the waiting cows, with heavy...

... of culture has begun to fragment and decline, the field of food history continues to grow significantly. Therefore, it is only fitting to reflect on the historical study of food as a cultural expression, to differentiate it from cultural approaches to the history of food politics, nutrition, and the like...

...Food history is part of what we call "public history." Public institutions such as museums, historic houses, national parks, and food production facilities collect, document, preserve, and present knowledge and practices, known as foodways, and as such, play a key role in narrating the production...

... to others like coffee and tea, and establishes its importance within the emergent field of food history. It presents the ways in which this incorporative ritual has facilitated the processes of community formation and identity construction, creating a sense of belonging for many newcomers to the region...

..., to their representation in literature and film, to the role of foods in individual, regional, and national identity. It features contributions by both noted Japan specialists and experts in food history. The book poses the question, “What is washoku?” What culinary values are imposed or implied by this term? Which...

...This chapter explores the evolving relationship between gastronomy and dietetics—or more specifically, pleasure and health—in food history. Before the science of nutrition was tempered by the discovery of vitamins and the culinary practices that were changed or shaped around this knowledge, more...

... and Argentina illuminate the historical formation of migrant marketplaces. It situates the book within the fields of transnational and comparative migration history, gender and food history, and the history of globalization. The introduction contends that Italian-language commercial newspapers, including...

... Snapping turtle Turtle party Garage kitchen Celebration Friendship Terroir Storytelling Food history Social history through food Two events mark the fall social season on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia—H. M. Arnold’s Bayford oyster house bash and Theodore Peed’s turtle party. Venison barbecue...

...Food history emerged as a serious academic pursuit in the wake of a major reorientation in the field of history led by French scholars of the Annales School. Established in 1929 by French historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the Annales in 1929 was a ground-breaking journal...

... the tremendous amount of labor necessary to produce food and establishes the central role of labor to studies of food history. It does so by focusing on food gathering, food production, and food consumption over time. after providing an overview of the early history of food work and the "commercial turn...

... biography and politics of food, and how food history is connected with race and ethnicity in the United States. The book also focuses on cookbooks as an important primary source for historians; contemporary food ethics, ethical food consumerism, and “ethical food consumption”; the link between food...