Dining On Turtles

Introduction: Of Turtles, Dining and the Importance of History in Food, Food in History; D.E.Kirkby , T.Luckins & B.Santich PART I: Feasting Past and Present Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception; B.Rawson Food and Feasts as Propaganda in Late Renaissance Italy; K.Albala Feasting on National Identity: Whisky, Haggis and Celebrations of Scottishness in the Nineteenth Century; A.Tyrrell , P.Hill & D.Kirkby Moose Nose and Buffalo Hump: Food Exchange in the British North American Fur Trade, 1780-1840; G.Colpitts Competing for Cultural Honours: Cosmopolitanism, Food, Drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956; T.Luckins PART II: Food, Drink and Community Cider, Oysters and Tavern Sociability: Ritual, Violence and Young Men in Early Modern Rural France; J.Cashmere The Reform of Popular Drinking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; A.L.Martin 'Beer, Women and Grub': Pubs, Food and the Industrial Working Class; D.Kirkby Community Cookbooks, Women and the 'Building of Civil Society', Australia, 1900-1938; S.Black Remembering Cyprus: 'Traditional' Cooking and Food Preparation in the Memories of Greek Cypriot Emigrants; T.Kalivas 'Just Sugar?' Food and Landscape along Queensland's Sunshine Coast; C.McConville