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Food Rules and Rituals
Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023
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.Mark McWilliams, Pr... Read more
Series: Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
Published: 2024
Pages: 389
eBook: 9781800505766
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.Mark McWilliams, Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, has served as Editor of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery since 2011.
| Cove | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | 5 | ||
| Foreword | 9 | ||
| Fasting Regulations in the Reformation Era | 11 | ||
| Shrouding the Caucasus | 21 | ||
| The Rules and Rituals of a Jim-Crow-Era ‘Spook Breakfast’ | 30 | ||
| Food Rules and Rituals: Etiquette for the Cosmic Table | 40 | ||
| Spaghetti: Structure and Rules in an Endocuisine | 50 | ||
| The Pintxo’s Conflict Between Codification and Authenticity | 61 | ||
| Reforming Body and Soul | 70 | ||
| Kaiseki Cuisine and the Meanings of Food in Japa | 81 | ||
| The Sensorial Unmaking of the Food Museum | 93 | ||
| The Roman Napki | 104 | ||
| The Food and Feeding Rituals of Benjamin and Ruth Kore | 109 | ||
| Eat Your Riddles | 118 | ||
| The Relationship between Rituals and Food at Oxford Colleges | 128 | ||
| Squashing Colonialism | 140 | ||
| From Recipes to Remote Work | 147 | ||
| Structure, Resistance, and Culinary Virtuosity in the Israeli Mimouna | 159 | ||
| Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Cake-Mix | 172 | ||
| Rituals of Hygiene in the Cathedral of Meat | 180 | ||
| Food Rules in the Pride Lands | 190 | ||
| Berches | 199 | ||
| Connecting Crumbs | 212 | ||
| A Diabetic’s Digest | 223 | ||
| Rice Stories | 237 | ||
| Eating and Feeding Rituals and Edicts in Persianate Societies | 246 | ||
| The Hospitality Spectre | 258 | ||
| Changing Food Rules and Rituals in Indigenous Tokunoshima | 264 | ||
| Irish Harvest Rituals and Customs | 274 | ||
| The Social and Cultural History of Blood as Food in Ireland | 284 | ||
| A Model of the Emergence of Food Superstitions | 294 | ||
| Miraculous Water and the Concept of Barakah | 307 | ||
| Creating Tradition on the Colonial Australian Christmas Table | 315 | ||
| The Enduring Rule that Red Meat Demands Red Wine | 327 | ||
| Vegan Studies | 336 | ||
| Rhyming Recipes | 345 | ||
| Regarding the Lesbian Potluck | 355 | ||
| The Vietnamese Feast of Bad Luck | 365 | ||
| How Tim Hortons Coffee Ritualizes Canadian Identity | 375 | ||
| Contributors | 385 |