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Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages Peter Scholliers
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Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages
Peter Scholliers
Food and drink have provided fascinating insights into cultural patterns in consumer societies. This book brings together comparative insights and research that allow a better understanding of processes of integration and segregation, the role of food in the construction of identity, and the relationship between old and new food habits.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Announced in cloth @ $42.99. Review Quotes: "A refreshing addition to the field of food studies ... This book makes an important contribution to food studies by placing food in the foreground of identity formation as well as explaining how various groups have used food at various times.' --"Journal of Social History""Always interesting and rewarding to read." --"The Economic History Review ""In general this series is highly valuable to people interested in the history of nutrition especially given the many interesting case studies presented." --"Sozial und Kulturgeschichte""An intriguing book that presents a history of food in a reader-friendly style." --"suite101.com "Biographical Note: Peter Scholliers is a Professor of History, at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Publisher Marketing: Food and drink have made for perennial sources of research and insight into cultural patterns in consumer societies. This volume examines food and drink by addressing two pivotal sets of questions relevant to the relationship between food and identity. The first set of questions centres around the place of food in the construction of identities and the second set of questions is concerned with the origin of food habits within European consumer societies.
Contributor Bio: Scholliers, Peter Kyri W. Claflin teaches at Boston University and is the author of numerous articles including 'Les Halles and the Moral Market: Frigophobia Strikes in the Belly of Paris, ' in the Oxford Symposium volume "Food & Morality "
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9781859734612 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 157 × 16 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Scholliers, Peter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) |
