Food, drink and identity cooking, eating and drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages (Berg, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Meals, food narratives, and sentiments of belonging in past and present /Peter Scholliers --Commensality and social morphology: an essay of typology /Claude Grignon --Upholding status : the diet of a noble family in early nineteenth-century La Mancha /Carmen Sarasúa --Promise of more. The rhetoric of (Food) consumption in a society searching for itself : West Germany in the 1950s /Michael Wildt --Identification process at work : virtues of the Italian working-class diet in the first half of the twentieth century /Paolo Sorcinelli --Bourgeois good? Sugar, norms of consumption and the labouring classes in nineteenth-century France /Martin Bruegel --Old people, alcohol and identity in Europe, 1300-1700 /A. Lynn Martin --National nutrition exhibition : a new nutritional narrative in Norway in the 1930s /Inger Johanne Lyngo --Wine, champagne and the making of French identity in the Belle Epoque /Kolleen M. Guy --Reading food riots : scarcity, abundance and national identity /Amy Bentle