FOOD AND CULTURE

"Kitchen Still Life with a Maid and Young Boy" by Frans Snyders & Jan Boeckhorst, circa 1650 (courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust)

European History

Albala K. 2000. Southern Europe. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1203-1210. Cambridge University Press. [history; contemporary food habits; food & religion]

Essential Reference -- click for detailsAlbala K. 2002. Eating Right in the Renaissance. University of California Press. [history; nutritional beliefs; dietary prescription; Europe]

Albala K. 2003. Food in Early Modern Europe. Greenwood. [history]

Andrews J. 1993. Diffusion of the Mesoamerican Food Complex to Southeastern Europe. Geographical Review 83:194-204. [history; plant introduction; foodstuffs; capsicum pepper; Central America; Europe; Balkans; Portugal; Spain]

Bakels C, Jacomet S. 2003. Access to Luxury Foods in Central Europe During the Roman Period: The Archaeobotanical Evidence. World Archaeology 34(3):542-557. [history; archaeology; food use; Europe]

Banham D. 2003. Be Hlafum and Wyrtum: Food Plants in Anglo-Saxon Society and Economy. Costerus 148:119-132. [history; foodstuffs; Europe]

Barlosius E. 2000. France. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1210-1216. Cambridge University Press. [history; Europe; France]

Black M. 2004. Medieval Cookery: Recipes and History. English Heritage. [history; food habits; kitchen equipment; etiquette; Europe; England]

Boucher PP. 1992. Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs. [history; cannibalism; Caribbean]

Brears P. 2004. Tudor Cookery: Recipes and History. English Heritage. [history; food habits; kitchen equipment; etiquette; New World foods; Europe; England]

Broomfield A. 2007. Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History. Praeger. [history; industrialization; social class; cookery; Europe]

Recommended - click for detailsCachel S. 1997. Dietary Shifts and the Upper Paleolithic Transition. Current Anthropology 38(4):579-604. [prehistory; food consumption; Europe; North America]

Capatti A, Montanari M. 2003. Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History. Columbia University Press. [food habits; cookery; high cuisine; Europe; Italy]

Carlin M, Rosenthal JT. 1998. Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. Hambleton Press. [collected essays; history; feasts; famine; food habits; Europe]

Chatwin ME. 1997. Socio-Cultural Transformation and Foodways in the Republic of Georgia. Nova Science. [famine; history; barter; Europe]

Clarkson L, Crawford E. 2002. Feast and Famine: A History of Food in Ireland, 1500 to 1920. Oxford University Press. [history; Europe]

Cool HEM. 2007. Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain. Cambridge University Press. [history; Europe]

Meaningful History -- click for detailsCowan B. 2005. The Social Life of Coffee:The Emergence of the British Coffee House. Yale University Press. [history; food and society; Europe]

Dalby A. 1997. Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece. Routledge. [Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsDalby A. 2003. Flavours of Byzantium. Prospect Books. [history; dining custom; dietary beliefs; seasonal foods; Middle Ages; Europe; Eastern Roman Empire; Constantinople]

Dalby A. 2003. Food in the Ancient World, an A-Z. Routledge. [history; various foodstuffs; Europe; Classical Greece; Rome]

Davidson A. 1992. Europeans' Wary Encounter with Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Other New World Foods. In Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World. N Foster, LS Cordell, eds. pp. 1-14. [history; foodstuffs]

Day I. 2000. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry -- the British at the Table, 1600-2000. Wilson. [history; social life; food habits; feasting; breakfast; tea time; drinking customs; Europe; England]

Dembinska M. 1999. Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past. University of Pennsylvania. [history; food habits; cookery; Europe; Poland]

Dietler M. 1996. Feasts and Commensal Politics in the Political Economy. In Food and the Status Quest. P Wiessner, W Schiefenhovel, eds. pp. 87-125. Berghahn. [prehistory; feasting; social relations; Western Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsEvans J. 2006. Technologies of Eating: The Development of Eating Utensils and Cuisine in Western Europe and the Americas, 1500-1900. Appetite 47. [history; eating tools; table manners]

Faas P. 2002. Around the Table of the Romans: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. Palgrave Macmillan Press. [history; festival; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsFeldman C. 2005. Roman Taste. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 8:7-30. [history; social class; food preference; Europe]

Ferguson PP. 2004. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. University of Chicago Press. [history; gastronomy; Europe; France]

Few M. 2005. Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory 52:673-687. [history; eighteenth century; beverage; women; ritual; conflict; magic; ceremonial power; Central America; Guatemala]

Flandrin J-L. 2007. Arranging the Meal: A History of Table Service in France. University of California Press. [history; table manners; Europe]

Compelling anthropometric history -- click for detailsFlandrin JL, Montanari M. 1999. Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present. Columbia University Press. [collected essays; history; classical world; Middle Ages; Europe; Western culture]

Fogel RW. 2004. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World. Cambridge University Press. [history; dietary change; anthropometrics; technophysio (cultural) evolution; Europe; North America]

Freeman J. 2004. The Making of the Modern Kitchen. Berg. [history; contemporary culture; cookery; utensiles; applicances; symbol and meaning; Europe; United Kingdom]

Recommended -- click for detailsGarnsey P. 1999. Food and Society in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. [history; food availability; nutritional status; Europe]

Glants M, Toombe JS. 1997. Food in Russian History and Culture. Indiana University Press. [collected essays; history; Europe; Central Asia; Russia; Soviet Union]

Glanville P, Young H. 2002. Elegant Eating: Four Hundred Years of Dining in Style. V & A Publications. [collected essays; history; food habits; table settings; decorations; Europe]

Goldstein D, Merkle K. 2005. Culinary Cultures of Europe - Identity, Diversity and Dialogue. Council of Europe. [collected essays; history; food habits; meaning; Europe]

Gooch T. 2007. Hinton's: A 19th-Century Eating House in Southwark: Social History from Discarded Pottery. London Archaeologist 11:268. [historic archaeology; restaurant; Europe ]

Recommended -- click for detailsGrivetti LE, Corlett JL, Lockett CT. 2001. Food in American History, Part 1: Maize Boutiful Gifts: America on the Eve of European Colonization (Antiquity to 1565). Nutrition Today 36(1):19-28. [food use; North America; United States]

Gronow J. 2003. Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia. [history; foodways; hunger; Soviet society; Europe; West Asia; Russia]

Recommended -- click for detailsGuy K. 2003. When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Johns Hopkins University Press. [history; food and place; symbol and meaning; branding; nationality; marketing; Europe; France]

Helstosky CF. 2004. Garlic and Oil: Food and Politics in Italy. Berg. [history; culinary culture; Europe]

Herrscher E, Bocherens H, Valentin F, et al. 2001. Dietary Behaviour of the Medieval Period in Grenoble: Isotopic Biogeochemistry of Saint-Laurent Cemetery (Xiiith-Xvth Ad, Isere, France). Comptes Rendus-academie Des Sciences Paris Serie 3 324(5):479-488. [history; dietary intake; Europe; France]

Recommended -- click for detailsJacobs M; Scholliers P (2003) Eating out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dinning and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century. Berg [collected essays; history; urbanization; Europe]

Jordan WC. 1996. The Great Famine: Norther Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. [history; food shortage; Europe]

Kelleher M. 1997. The Feminization of Famine: Representations of Women in Famine Naratives. Duke University Press. [images and symbols; famine; gender; history; Europe; South Asia; Ireland; India; Bengal]

Kinealy C. 1995. This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52. Gill and Macmillan. [history; famine; Europe; Ireland]

Kuster H. 2000. Northern Europe -- Germany and Surrounding Regions. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1226-1231. Cambridge University Press. [prehistory; history; Europe]

Kuvandziev G. 1999. The Bulgarian Popular Dietary Tradition During the Middle Ages. Bulgarian Historical Review 27(3-4):10-. [history; Europe; Bulgaria]

Laudan R. 2000. Birth of the Modern Diet. Scientific American 283(2):76-81. [history; symbolic meaning; classification of foods; Europe]

Leerssen J. 2006. From Whiskey to Famine: Food and Intercultural Encounters in Irish History. Yearbook of European Studies 22:49-61. [diet; nationality; ethnic identity; Europe; England; Ireland]

Lehmann G. 2003. The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in 18th-Century Britain. Prospect Books. [history; cookery; table manners; meals; social relations; social class; anotated bibliography; Europe]

Leynse WLH. 2006. Journeys through 'Ingestible Topography': Socializing the 'Situated Eater' in France. European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics 22:129-158. [socialization; enculturation; food preference; children; Europe]

Mason L. 1998. Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: The Prehistory of Sweets. Prospect Books. [history; foodstuffs; confections; candy making; Europe; United Kingdom]

Recommended -- click for detailsMason L. 2000. Food and the Rites of Passage. [collected papers; history; life crisis; ritual; feasts; social life; Europe; England; Ireland]

McGovern P, Fleming S, Solomon K. 1995. The Origins and Ancient History of Wine. Gordon and Breach. [collected essays; foodstuff; history; Middle East; Europe; Mediterranean]

Medina FX. 2006. 'Social Wine': Ethnic Identity and Wine Consumption in the Basque Diaspora in Barcelona (Spain). European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics 22:111-127. [food use; wine; social identity; Europe]

Messer E. 1997. Three Centuries of Changing European Tastes for Potato. In Food Preferences and Taste. H Macbeth, ed. pp. 101-113. Berghahn. [history; food use; cultural change; Europe]

Moggi-Cecchi J, Pacciani E, Pinto-Cisternas J. 1994. Enamel Hypoplasia and Age at Weaning in 19th Century Florence, Italy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93(3):299-306. [history; infant feeding; health & disease; Europe]

Murton B. 2000. Australia and New Zealand. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1339-1350. Cambridge University Press. [history; contemporary food habits; modernization; Oceania; European immigrants; Australians Aborigines; Maori]

Neset T-S, Lohm U. 2005. Spatial Imprint of Food Consumption: A Historical Analysis for Sweden, 1870-2000. Human Ecology 33:565-580. [ecology; history; geography; food consumption; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsNestle M. 2000. The Mediterranean (Diets and Disease Prevention). In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1193-1203. Cambridge University Press. [history; contemporary food habits;; diet and health; Europe; Mediterranean]

O'Connor K. 2006. The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal with Recipes. Kegan Paul. [history; cookery; Europe; England]

Otterloo van AH. 2000. The Low Countries. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1232-1240. Cambridge University Press. [history; contemporary food habits; modernization; globalization; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsPatterson KD. 2000. Russia. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1240-1247. Cambridge University Press. [history; Europe]

Pitte J-R. 2002. French Gastronomy: The History and Geography of a Passion. Columbia University Press. [history; contemporary food habits; microclimates: cultural space; Europe; France]

Poirteir C. 1995. The Great Irish Famine. Mercier. [history; famine; Europe; Ireland]

Pollington S. 2003. The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Books. [history; feasts; ritual meals; Europe]

Rabinovich M. 1992. Ethnological Studies in the Traditional Food of the Russians, Ukrainians and Byelorussians between the 16th and 19th Centuries: State of Research and Basic Problems. In European Food History: A Research Review. HJ Teuteberg, ed. pp. 224-235. [history; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsRebora G. 2001. Culture of the Fork: A Brief History of Food in Europe. Columbia University Press. [history; food habits; food supply; cookery; Europe]

Redon O, Sabban F, Serventi S. 1998. The Medieval Kitchen. University of Chicago Press. [history; foodways; cookery; Europe; France; Italy]

Recommended -- click for detailsRognvaldardottir N. 2002. Icelandic Food and Cookery. [history; contemporary food habits; customs; foodstuffs; Europe]

Saffron I. 2002. Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy. Broadway Books. [foodstuff; contemporary trade; environment; pollution; history; Europe; Western Asia; Caspian Sea]

Scharer MR, Fenton A. 1998. Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium of the International Commission for Research into European Food History. Tuckwell Press. [collected papers; food processing; kitchen appliances; tableware; industrial production; food preservation; Europe]

Schmid Neset TS. 2004. Reconstructing Swedish Food Consumption from Hospital Diets after 1870. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 43(3):149-179. [history; food use; ecology; environmental impact; Europe]

Scholliers P. 2001. Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages. Berg. [collected essays; history; social identity; symbol and meaning; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsSchwartz J. 1991. The Great Food Migration. Newsweek 118:58-62. [history; diffusion; food use; Europe; North American Indians]

Spang RL. 2000. The Invention of the Restaurant. Harvard University Press. [history; Europe; France]

Spencer C. 2000. The British Isles. In The Cambridge World History of Food. KF Kiple, KC Ornelas, eds. Vol. 2, pp. 1217-1226. Cambridge University Press. [prehistory; history; Europe; Great Britain]

Spencer C. 2003. British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. Columbia University Press. [history; ethnic food habits: English, Scottish, Welsh; cookery; Europe; United Kingdom]

Spiering M. 2006. Food, Phagophobia and English National Identity. European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics 22:31-48. [history; imagry; meating eating; beef consumption; Europe]

Stead J. 2004. Georgian Cookery: Recipes and History. English Heritage. [history; food habits; kitchen equipment; etiquette; Europe; England]

Stearns PN. 1997. Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West. New York University Press. [body imagine; dieting; Europe; North America; France; United States]

Recommended -- click for detailsTames R. 2003. Feed London: A Taste of History. Phillimore. [history; markets; eating places; diet; social conditions; social class; Europe; England]

Terrio S. 2000. Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. University of California Press. [food use; cacao; chocolatiers; manufacture; Europe; Basque; France]

Teuteberg HJ. 1992. European Food History: A Research Review. Leicester University Press. [collected essays; history; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsTrubek A. 2000. Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession. University of Pennsylvania Press. [culture history; cookery; 19th century; Europe; France]

Recommended -- click for detailsTurner J. 2004. Spice: The History of a Temptation. Alfred A. Knopf. [flavor; seasonings; Europe]

Ungar RW. 2004. Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press. [history; foodstuff; Europe]

Visser M. 1991. The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners. Grove Weidenfeld. [history; table manners; Europe]

White E. 2000. Feeding a City: York: The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. Prospect Books. [collected papers; archaeology; history; food supply; cookery; industrial food; Europe; England; York]

Wilkins J. 2001. Eating a L'ancienne, the Lesson of Galen. Petits Propos Culinaires 68:18-28. [history; Europe]

Recommended -- click for detailsWright CA. 1999. A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes. William Morrow. [history; cookery; Europe; Middle East; North Africa]

Authoratative Reference -- click for detailsZabusky SE. 2006. Food, National Identity, and Emergent Europeanness at the European Space Agency. European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics 22:203-236. [eating habits; nationality; Europe]

Zohary D, Hopf M. 2000. Dometication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley. 3rd edition. Clarendon Press. [prehistory; origins of domestications; Europe; Near East; North Africa (Nile Valley); West Asia]

Zuckerman L. 1999. The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. North Point. [foodstuff; history; Europe; North America; Ireland; England; France; United States]

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