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Food, Drink and Identity - Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages (Paperback, Revised)
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Food, Drink and Identity - Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages (Paperback, Revised)
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Food and drink have provided fascinating insights into cultural
patterns in consumer societies. There is an intimate relationship
between food and identity but processes of identity formation
through food are far from clear. This book adds a new perspective
to the existing body of scholarship by addressing pivotal
questions: is food central or marginal to identity construction?
Does food equally matter for all group(ing)s? Why would, in
people's experience, food become especially important at one
moment, or, on the contrary, lose its significance?
The origin of food habits is also interrogated. Contributors
investigate how, when, why and by whom cooking, eating and drinking
were used as a means of distinction. Leading historians and
sociologists look at concepts of authenticity, adjustment,
invention and import, as well as food signs and codes, and why they
have been accepted or rejected. They examine a wide range of
periods and topics: the elderly, alcohol and identity in Early
Modern Europe; food riots and national identity; noble families,
eating and drinking in eighteenth-century Spain; consumption and
the working class in the nineteenth century; commensality; the
meaning of Champagne in Belle-Epoque France; the narrative of food
in Norway; wine and bread in French Algeria; food and identity in
post-war Germany.
This intriguing book brings together new, 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.
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