Food: A Cultural Culinary History

rice, but raising it to a fi ner and more spiritual level. Mochi is consumed during the New Year period while sake plays a very ...

Lecture 24: Edo, Japan—Samurai Dining and Zen Aesthetics soured, decomposed rice would be wiped off, and the fi sh could be eate ...

 Every individual has his or her own set of chopsticks, and separate ones are used for serving. The same focus on manners and ...

Lecture 24: Edo, Japan—Samurai Dining and Zen Aesthetics period that placed so much emphasis on presentation and on the philosop ...

Cwiertka, Modern Japanese Cuisine. Ishige, History and Culture of Japanese Food. Rath, Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan. T ...

Lecture 25: Colonial Cookery in North America Colonial Cookery in North America................................................. ...

Americans introduced the English to corn, tomatoes, and pumpkins. Unlike their English cousins, the Virginia settlers adopted th ...

Lecture 25: Colonial Cookery in North America  What these people drank is equally as interesting. They drank wine if they coul ...

 New Englanders were extremely prolifi c—which is what happens with abundant natural resources, hard-working people, and lots ...

Lecture 25: Colonial Cookery in North America  New England simplicity changed into the mid-18th century for a few reasons. Fir ...

sugar because it was made by slaves, and they tended to avoid spices because they felt it adulterated foods and was an unnecessa ...

Lecture 25: Colonial Cookery in North America was very popular in New England but today is a real rarity. It is worth reviving, ...

Eating in the Early Industrial Revolution ......................................... Lecture 26 T his lecture begins by focusing ...

Lecture 26: Eating in the Early Industrial Revolution  Smith also wondered what would happen if all the ways governments contr ...

 Britain has an excess of labor, which drives the cost of labor way down, leading to lots of people looking for jobs and havin ...

Lecture 26: Eating in the Early Industrial Revolution to enjoy working and become satisfi ed with our accomplishments is uniquel ...

incentive to use the fl our quickly rather than let it mature, which gives it better fl avor and lift in baking.  Bread manufa ...

Lecture 26: Eating in the Early Industrial Revolution  Absolute disaster and deadly famine struck when the potato blight hit. ...

Humble, Culinary Pleasures. Reader, Potato. Salaman, History and Social Infl uence of the Potato. Smith, Eating History. Soyer, ...

Lecture 27: Romantics, Vegetarians, Utopians Romantics, Vegetarians, Utopians ................................................. ...