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Food and the Rites of Passage (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Food and the Rites of Passage (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Baptism, marriage, childbirth, death: these are the milestones of
life, invariably marked by a feast or comforting rituals founded on
food and drink. Some of these habits flourished, then died away -
think of the cups of wine passed around the gossips gathered at a
lying in; others have gone on to be industries in their own right -
the wedding cake, which has slowly but surely evolved from the
giant flat discs of bride cake illustrated in the sensational
full-colour cover of a fete in Bermondsey by Hofnagel in the
seventeenth century, to the many-tiered and icing-bedaubed
monuments of today. The book consists of six essays by recognised
food-historians, each taking in turn one of these milestones,
sometimes (but not always) with a certain north-country bias: Peter
Brears writes on funerals; Dr Layinka Swinburne writes on
childbirth; Laura Mason on wedding cakes; Ivan Day on old marriage
customs; and Professor Tony Green on the sociology of the modern
wedding celebration. There is also an overview of Irish food
customs, with reference to these rites, by the well-regarded young
Irish food historian, Regina Sexton.
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