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Celebration : proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2011 / edited by Mark McWilliams.
ISBN:
9781903018897
Title:
Celebration : proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2011 / edited by Mark McWilliams.
Author:
Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (2011 : St. Catherine's College)
Publication Information:
Totnes, Devon [U.K.] : Prospect Books, 2012.
Physical Description:
384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
General Note:
2011 issue of: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: The Celebratory and the Everyday: Guinea Pigs, Hamburgers and the Performance of Food Heritage in Highland Ecuador / Emma-Jayne Abbots -- Celebrating Solitude: M.F. K. Fisher on Dining Alone / Robert Appelbaum -- Celebration and Japanese Food / Kimiko Barber -- Transylvanian Lambs and Easter Tables: Celebrations in Danger of Extinction / Kate Hawkings -- It Was Divine ... Gods and their Food in the Ancient Greek World / Kim Beerden -- Sukkot: The Paradigmatic Harvest Festival / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus -- Chi vuol godere la festa, digiuni la vigilia: On the Relationship between Fasting and Feasting / Anthony F. Buccini -- A History of the Wassail Bowl: From Pagan Brew to Christian Custard / Joanna Crosby -- Celebrating Hellenism far from Hellas: Feasts and Festivals of Ptolemy II of Egypt / Andrew Dalby -- The `Floating Feasts' of Ancient Rome / John F. Donahue -- The Great Aussie Barbecue / Len Fisher --

Contents note continued: Celebrating Christmas and New Year with Punch / Elizabeth Gabay -- Long Life to You! Drinking and Celebrating in Ancient Rome in the Festival of Anna Perenna / Christopher Grocock -- Celebrating with Altamiras: The Spirit of Fiesta Food / Vicky Hayward -- Buttering Up the Sun: Russian Maslenitsa from Pagan Practice to Contemporary Celebration / Sharon Hudgins -- Celebrating with Sweets in Ottoman Turkey / Priscilla Mary Isin -- Royal Pomp: Viceregal Celebrations and Hospitality in Georgian Dublin / Tara Kellaghan -- The Unavoidable Ham Biscuit / Mark McWilliams -- North and South: Two Banquets Given to Promote the Great 1851 Exhibition / Valerie Mars -- Dining with the Drapers: The Drapers' Company 1564 Election Day Feast as a Map of Elizabethan London / Sarah Ann Milne -- Feast for a King: The Wine and Food Society's Careme Banquet at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton / Joan Navarre -- Keeping Kosher: Cause for Celebration? / Felicity Newman --

Contents note continued: The Midwinter Celebration in Antarctica: Feeding Body and Soul / Diana Noyce -- The Bull's Head Breakfast in Old Los Angeles / Charles Perry -- Underground Restaurants - A New Way to Celebrate with Strangers / Sabine Cikic -- On Mfiiumbu, Nkasa, and Whisky: A Wedding Celebration in Kimbonga-Louamba (Congo-Brazzaville) / Birgit Ricquier -- Tableware and Taste: Ceramic Production and the Presentation of Banquet Food / Gillian Riley -- Porrablot - Icelandic Feasting / Michael R. Leaman -- Celebrating Life in Multicultural Rotterdam: A Visual Approach / Linda Roodenburg -- M.F.K. Fisher, W. H. Auden, and Thanksgiving for a Habitat / Seth Rosenbaum -- Cake: The Centrepiece of Celebrations / Marietta Rusinek -- Celebrating Purim and Passover: Food and Memory in the Creation of Jewish Identity / Susan Weingarten -- Prints Charming: Nineteenth-Century New York Cake Boards and New Year's Cake / Kimberly Sorensen --

Contents note continued: The Festive Fruit: A History of Figs / David C. Sutton -- Be Merry, Around a Wheat Berry! The Significance of Wheat in Anatolian Rituals and Celebrations / Aylin Oney Tan -- The Rise of Taste and the Rhetoric of Celebration / Viktoria von Hoffmann -- Celebrations and the Torrid Pleasures of an Ice-Cream and Sorbet Tree in Rome in August 1714 / Robin Weir.
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Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
Totnes, Devon [U.K.] : Prospect Books, 2012.