Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Taste for Novelty -- 2 The Theatre of Dining: Splendour and Performance -- 3 Word, Image and Intellect: Rhetoric and Display at Table -- 4 Bad Taste -- 5 Manly Men, Heroic Hunters -- 6 The Display of Triumph: or: How a Plate Can Make You Powerful -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.