Food, drink and identity in Europe /

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of consumption to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and others have paid particular atten...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Wilson, Thomas M., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006
Series:European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 22.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Food, drink and identity in Europe : consumption and the construction of local, national and cosmopolitan culture / Thomas M. Wilson
  • Food, phagophobia and English national identity / Menno Spiering
  • From whiskey to famine : food and intercultural encounters in Irish history / Joep Leerssen
  • Diet and modernization in the Netherlands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Michael Wintle
  • HItting the bar : alcohol, football identities and global flows in Norway / Gary Armstrong and Hans Hognestad
  • "Social wine" : ethnic identity and wine consumption in the Basque diaspora in Barcelona (Spain) / F. Xavier Medina
  • Journeys through "ingestible topography" : socializing the "situated eater" in France / Wendy L.H. Leynse
  • The quest for quality : food and the notion of "trust" in the Gers area in France / Karen Montagne
  • Food fights at the EU table : the gastronomic assertion of Italian distinctiveness / Erick Castellanos and Sara M. Bergstresser
  • Food, national identity, and emergent Europeanness at the European Space Agency / Stacia E. Zabusky.