Celebration : proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2011 /

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Meeting name:Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (2011 : St. Catherine's College)
Imprint:Totnes, Devon [U.K.] : Prospect Books, 2012.
Description:384 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8949007
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Other uniform titles:Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Other authors / contributors:McWilliams, Mark.
ISBN:9781903018897 (pbk.)
1903018897 (pbk.)
Notes:2011 issue of: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • The Celebratory and the Everyday: Guinea Pigs, Hamburgers and the Performance of Food Heritage in Highland Ecuador
  • Celebrating Solitude: M.F.K. Fisher on Dining Alone
  • Celebration and Japanese Food
  • Transylvanian Lambs and Easter Tables: Celebrations in Danger of Extinction
  • It Was Divine ... Gods and their Food in the Ancient Greek World
  • Sukkot: The Paradigmatic Harvest Festival
  • Chi vuol godere la festa, digiuni la vigilia: On the Relationship between Fasting and Feasting
  • A History of the Wassail Bowl: From Pagan Brew to Christian Custard
  • Celebrating Hellenism far from Hellas: Feasts and Festivals of Ptolemy II of Egypt
  • The 'Floating Feasts' of Ancient Rome
  • The Great Aussie Barbecue
  • Celebrating Christmas and New Year with Punch
  • Long Life to You! Drinking and Celebrating in Ancient Rome in the Festival of Anna Perenna
  • Celebrating with Altamiras: The Spirit of Fiesta Food
  • Buttering Up the Sun: Russian Maslenitsa from Pagan Practice to Contemporary Celebration
  • Celebrating with Sweets in Ottoman Turkey
  • Royal Pomp: Viceregal Celebrations and Hospitality in Georgian Dublin
  • The Unavoidable Ham Biscuit
  • North and South: Two Banquets Given to Promote the Great 1851 Exhibition
  • Dining with the Drapers: The Drapers' Company 1564 Election Day Feast as a Map of Elizabethan London
  • Feast for a King: The Wine and Food Society's Carême Banquet at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
  • Keeping Kosher: Cause for Celebration?
  • The Midwinter Celebration in Antarctica: Feeding Body and Soul
  • The Bull's Head Breakfast in Old Los Angeles
  • Underground Restaurants - A New Way to Celebrate with Strangers
  • On Mfúúmbu, Nkasa, and Whisky: A Wedding Celebration in Kimbonga-Louamba (Congo-Brazzaville)
  • Tableware and Taste: Ceramic Production and the Presentation of Banquet Food
  • Porrablót - Icelandic Feasting
  • Celebrating Life in Multicultural Rotterdam: A Visual Approach
  • M.F.K. Fisher, W.H. Auden, and Thanksgiving for a Habitat
  • Cake: The Centrepiece of Celebrations
  • Celebrating Purim and Passover: Food and Memory in the Creation of Jewish Identity
  • Prints Charming: Nineteenth-Century New York Cake Boards and New Year's Cake
  • The Festive Fruit: A History of Figs
  • Be Merry, Around a Wheat Berry! The Significance of Wheat in Anatolian Rituals and Celebrations
  • The Rise of Taste and the Rhetoric of Celebration
  • Celebrations and the Torrid Pleasures of an Ice-Cream and Sorbet Tree in Rome in August 1714
  • The Origins of the Celebration of St Cosmas and St Damian in Rio de Janeiro