Tastes and Traditions
A Journey through Menu History
Seiten
2025
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-83639-067-1 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-83639-067-1 (ISBN)
An engaging exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell.
Menus are invaluable snapshots of the food consumed at specific moments in time and place. Tastes and Traditions: A Journey through Menu History provides glimpses into the meals enjoyed by royalty and rogues, and by those celebrating special occasions or sampling new culinary sensations. It describes food prepared for the great and the good, meals served during sieges and tablescapes immortalized in art. It explores how menus entertain adults, link food with play for children, reflect changing notions of health and highlight the enduring human need to make meals meaningful. Lavishly illustrated, this book offers an engaging exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell, appealing to food lovers and general readers, as well as professionals in the food industry.
Menus are invaluable snapshots of the food consumed at specific moments in time and place. Tastes and Traditions: A Journey through Menu History provides glimpses into the meals enjoyed by royalty and rogues, and by those celebrating special occasions or sampling new culinary sensations. It describes food prepared for the great and the good, meals served during sieges and tablescapes immortalized in art. It explores how menus entertain adults, link food with play for children, reflect changing notions of health and highlight the enduring human need to make meals meaningful. Lavishly illustrated, this book offers an engaging exploration of why menus matter and the stories they tell, appealing to food lovers and general readers, as well as professionals in the food industry.
Nathalie Cooke is Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her books include Canadian Literary Fare (with Shelley Boyd, 2023), winner of the 2024 Gabrielle Roy Prize, and What’s to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History (2009).
Introduction: Where Can Menus Take Us?
Chapter One: Feasts for the Eyes
Chapter Two: Menus as Mementos
Chapter Three: Cultural Encounters
Chapter Four: Menus for Children and for the Children We Once Were
Chapter Five: Health on the Menu
Chapter Six: Riddle Me This: Menus That Intrigue
Conclusion: What Menus Can Do
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 190 illustrations, 179 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 250 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83639-067-X / 183639067X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83639-067-1 / 9781836390671 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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