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...
Food and drink have provided fascinating insights into cultural patterns in consumer societies. There is an intimate relationship between food and ...
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...
Food and drink have provided fascinating insights into cultural patterns in consumer societies. There is an intimate relationship between food and ...
Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers-in cafes, pubs, brasseries, and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of "eating out" to include any eating that takes place outside the home? What cultural shifts can we see through time? What does this tell us about pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial societies?
Eating Out in Europe addresses such questions as it examines changes in eating patterns. Case studies include the evolution of the pub, the rise of the fast food industry in Britain, picnicking in nineteenth-century France, snack culture in the...
Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers-in cafes, pubs, brasseries, and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of "eating out" ...
Belgian food and drink, often overshadowed by the those of powerhouse neighbors France and Germany, receive much deserved attention in this thorough overview, the most comprehensive available in English. Belgian waffles, chocolate, and beer are renowned, but "Food Culture in Belgium" opens up the entire food culture spectrum and reveals Belgian food habits today and yesterday. Students and food mavens learn about the question of Belgianness in discussions of the foodways of distinct regions of Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels. Packed with daily life insight, consumption statistics, and...
Belgian food and drink, often overshadowed by the those of powerhouse neighbors France and Germany, receive much deserved attention in this thoroug...
Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers-in cafes, pubs, brasseries, and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of "eating out" to include any eating that takes place outside the home? What cultural shifts can we see through time? What does this tell us about pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial societies?
Eating Out in Europe addresses such questions as it examines changes in eating patterns. Case studies include the evolution of the pub, the rise of the fast food industry in Britain, picnicking in nineteenth-century France, snack culture in the...
Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers-in cafes, pubs, brasseries, and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of "eating out" ...
The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock after three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies? How have other disciplines - sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, science, art history - influenced writing on food history in terms of approach, methodology, controversies, and knowledge of past foodways?
Essays by twelve prominent scholars provide a compendium of...
The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock after...
Si les institutions communautaires de l Europe permettent aujourd hui d identifier un espace politique et economique, qu en est-il du sentiment d appartenance des Europeens a une civilisation partagee ? En depit de nombreux traits d union, leurs identites et leurs cultures materielles demeurent multiples. Ce premier livre de la collection - L Europe alimentaire - s inscrit dans une dynamique croissante de l interet porte par des publics divers et nombreux aux pratiques de l alimentation. Il reunit les positions de specialistes des cultures alimentaires sur la notion, tres complexe a...
Si les institutions communautaires de l Europe permettent aujourd hui d identifier un espace politique et economique, qu en est-il du sentiment d appa...
Wages have always been a major expense for businesses. This fascinating book studies the impact of spiralling wage demands in a cotton factory in Ghent during the 19th century and the efforts of management to reduce this cost through investment in new technology and stricter employment policies. The workers' responses to wage cutting are also considered.
The importance of this study lies in its unique collection of wage data -- more than 200 pay books and 100 ledgers from the Voortman cotton factory -- which show, in great detail, the hourly, daily and yearly wages for all...
Wages have always been a major expense for businesses. This fascinating book studies the impact of spiralling wage demands in a cotton factory in G...
