Cultural studies: food and society
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Beer Terroir
Beer Terroir seeks to understand how applying the concept of terroir (a term typically used in reference to wine) to beer can help further our understanding not only of the beverage but also of the social and economic factors affecting those who first began to brew, drink, brand and mark...
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Gardens, Flowers, and Fruit
Gardens, Flowers and Fruit includes selected papers from the 2024 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from around the globe consider the precariousness of our fragile lifestyles, celebrating the joys of the natural world while conscious of the si...
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Food Rules & Rituals
Food Rules and Rituals includes selected papers from the 2023 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from around the globe consider how rules and rituals structure the experiences and meanings of consuming foods in a wide variety of contexts.
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Plenti and Grase
A Tudor household’s way of life laid bare ...
This is an important study of the household affairs of the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham and Middleton Hall in Warwickshire. Made wealthy by inheritance and coal mining, they built a wonder-house at Wollaton, d... -
Authenticity in the Kitchen
The theme of the 2005 Oxford Symposium was the ever-fraught concept of authenticity in the kitchen. Papers accepted delivered and prepared for publication include those by well-known authors from Britain and abroad including the food writers Caroline Conran, Fuchsia Dunlop, William Rubel and Coll...