This volume of eight essays examines the scribes of gastronomy - an interesting but vital theme in imperial Chinese literature. From stanzas on food and wine in the Classics of Poetry to the articulation of refined dining in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Su Shi's literary recipe for attaining culinary perfection, lavish textual representations help explain the unique appeal of food and its overwhelming cultural significance within Chinese society. The volume offers a colourful tour to the topic and explicates the importance of tea in poetry, "morality of drunkenness", and food's role in objectifying women, etc.

This is the first volume of an annual series that celebrates the best in newly commissioned food writing. The first of its kind in Australia, this series aims to be bold and unique - and to start the conversation about food in the wider community.

Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series in this cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack and Stephen's travels. In these pages, you will find a wealth of authentic early-nineteenth-century recipes for foods such as Burgoo, Ship's Biscuit, Skillygalee, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Figgy-Dowdy, Soused Hog's Face, Solomongundy, Jam Roly-Poly, Portable Soup, and, of course, Spotted Dog. With this book you can create a feast with Sucking Pig and Christmas Pudding, recreate Clarissa Oakes's bridal dinner, or learn how Jack's steward Killick might have made coffee. Recipes are accompanied by relevant quotes from the series text as well as extensive historical notes on the origins of the dishes and their names. Also included are instructive sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings, and raised pies.

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death. In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine. It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture.   Reihe Representations & Reflections Studies in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - Band 001.

"This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and others. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self-identity and social behaviour."--Jacket.