Food and the City in Europe since 1800

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Food and the City......Page 18
Urbanization and Nutrition: Historical Research Reconsidered......Page 30
‘A Tale of Two Cities’: A Comparison of Food Supply in London and Paris in the 1850s......Page 42
Urbanization and Dietary Change in Mediterranean Europe: Barcelona, 1870–19351......Page 56
Food Science/Food Politics: Max Rubner and ‘Rational Nutrition’ in Fin-de-Siècle Berlin......Page 68
How to Feed Three Million Inhabitants: Berlin in the First Years after the Second World War, 1945–1948......Page 80
Food Fraud and the Big City: Brussels’ Responses to Food Anxieties in the Nineteenth Century......Page 94
Food Quality in London and the Rise of the Public Analyst, 1870–1939......Page 108
Municipal Laboratories and the Analysis of Foodstuffs in France under the Third Republic: A Case Study of the Paris Municipal La......Page 122
The ‘War Against Food Adulteration’: Municipal Food Monitoring and Citizen Self-Help Associations in Germany, 1870s–1880s......Page 134
The Discovery of Vitamins and its Impact on the Food Industry: The Issue of Tinned Sweetened Condensed Skim Milk 1890–1940......Page 148
First-Class Restaurants and Luxury Food Stores: The Emergence of the Soviet Culture of Consumption in the 1930s......Page 160
A Shop Window of the Regime: The Position of Prague as the Capital in the Preferential Supply System of Selected Czechoslovakian......Page 172
Born-in-the-City: The Supermarket in Germany......Page 182
The Changing Position of Exotic Foods in Post-War Amsterdam......Page 194
The Immigrant Impact upon London’s Food since c.1850......Page 206
Scientists at the Table: The Cultural Signi.cance of Scientists’ Festive Meals in Berlin, 1830–1940......Page 220
Reforming Diet at the End of the Nineteenth Century in Europe......Page 232
Turtle Soup and Water Porridge: Some Social and Cultural Perspectives on Food Habits in the City of Oslo, 1860–2000......Page 244
Food Markets in the City of Bordeaux – From the 1960s until Today: Historical Evolution and Anthropological Aspects......Page 256
Conclusion......Page 268
Index......Page 272