Dining on Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in History....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception....Pages 15-32
Food and Feast as Propaganda in Late Renaissance Italy....Pages 33-45
Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and the Celebration of Scottishness in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 46-63
Moose-Nose and Buffalo Hump: The Amerindian-European Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade to 1840....Pages 64-81
Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956....Pages 82-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-102
Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural France....Pages 103-120
The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe....Pages 121-135
‘Beer, Women and Grub’: Pubs, Food and the Industrial Working Class....Pages 136-153
Community Cookbooks, Women and the ‘Building of the Civil Society’ in Australia, 1900–38....Pages 154-170
Remembering Cyprus: ‘Traditional’ Cypriot Cooking and Food Preparation Practices in the Memories of Greek Cypriot Emigrants....Pages 171-187
‘Just Sugar’? Food and Landscape along Queensland’s Sunshine Coast....Pages 188-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-208