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Food History - A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present (Hardcover)
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Food History - A Feast of the Senses in Europe, 1750 to the Present (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the
study of food history because the traditional focus upon food
types, quantities, and nutritional values is incomplete without
some recognition of smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste. Eating
is a sensual experience. Every day and at every meal the senses of
smell, touch, sight, hearing, and taste are engaged in the acts of
preparation and consumption. And yet these bodily acts are
ephemeral; their imprint upon the source material of history is
vestigial. Hitherto historians have shown little interest in the
senses beyond taste, and this book fills that research gap. Four
dimensions are treated: * Words, Symbols and Uses: Describing the
Senses - an investigation of how specific vocabularies for food are
developed. * Industrializing the Senses - an analysis of the
fundamental change in the sensory qualities of foods under the
pressure of industrialization and economic forces outside the
control of the household and the artisan producer. * Nationhood and
the Senses - an exploration of how the combination of the senses
and food play into how nations saw themselves, and how food was a
signature of how political ideologies played out in practical,
everyday terms. * Food Senses and Globalization - an examination of
links between food, the senses, and the idea of international
significance. Putting all of the senses on the agenda of food
history for the first time, this is the ideal volume for scholars
of food history, food studies and food culture, as well as social
and cultural historians. Putting all of the senses on the agenda of
food history for the first time, this is the ideal volume for
scholars of food history, food studies and food culture, as well as
social and cultural historians.
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