ISBN:
9781442644762
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9781442612839
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 electronic text (xiv, 456 p.))
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ill., digital file
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Also available in print version
Parallel Title:
Print version Iacovetta, Franca Edible Histories, Cultural Politics : Towards a Canadian Food History
DDC:
394.1/20971
Keywords:
Food Social aspects
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History
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Food History
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Food habits History
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Food Political aspects
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History
;
Canada Social life and customs
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Sophisticated, culturally sensitive, and accessible, Edible Histories will appeal to students, historians, and foodies alike
Description / Table of Contents:
Part One : Cultural Exchanges and Cuisines in the Contact Zone. 1. 'Fit for the table of the most fastidious epicure': Culinary Colonialism in the Upper Canadian Contact Zone / Alison Norman2. 'The snipe were good and the wine not bad': Enabling Public Life for Privileged Men / Julia Roberts -- 3. The Role of Food in Canadian Expressions of Christianity / Michel Desjardins and Ellen Desgardins
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Two : Regional Food Identities and Traditions. 4. Pine-clad hills and spindrift swirl: The Character, Persistence, and Significance of Rural Newfoundland Foodways / Maura Hanrahan5. Stocking the Root Cellar: Foodscapes in the Peace River Region / Megan J. Davies -- 6. Rational Meals for the Traditional Family: Nutrition in Quebec School Manuals, 1900-1960 / Caroline Durand
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Three : Foodways and Memories in Ethnic and Racial Communities. 7. 'We Didn't Have A Lot of Money, But We Had Food': Ukrainians and Their Depression-Era Food Memories / Stacey Zembrzycki8. Feeding the Dead: The Ukrainian Food Colossi of the Canadian Prairies / Holyck Hunchuck -- 9. Toronto's Multicultured Tongues: Stories of South Asian Cuisines / Julie Mehta
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Four : Gendering Food in Cookbooks and Family Spaces. 10. More than 'just' Recipes: Mennonite Cookbooks in Mid-twentieth Century North America / Marlene Epp11. Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices: A Treasure for my Daughter and the Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy in Postwar Montreal / Andrea Eidinger -- 12. 'Tutti a Tavola!' Feeding the Family in Two Generations of Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal / Sonia Cancian
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Five : Single Food Commodities, Markets, and Cultural Debates. 13. John Bull and Sons: The Empire Marketing Board and the Creation of a British Imperial Food System / James Murton14. Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec / Nathalie Cooke
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Six : Protests, Mindful Eating, and the Politics of Food. 15. The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s / Julie Guard16. 'Less Inefficiency, More Milk': The Politics of Food and the Culture of the English-Canadian University, 1900-1950 / Catherine Gidney -- 17. The Granola High: Eating Differently in the 1960s and 1970s / Catherine Carsstairs -- 18. 'Meat Stinks/Eat Beef Dyke!': Coming out as a Vegetarian in the Prairies / Valerie J. Korinek
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Seven : National Identities and Cultural Spectacles. 19. Nationalism on the Menu: Three Banquets on the 1939 Royal Tour / Molly Pulver Ungar20. Food Acts and Cultural Politics: Women and the Gendered Dialectics of Culinary Pluralism at the International Institute of Toronto, 1950s-1960s / Franca Jacovetta
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Eight : Marketing and Imposing Nutritional Standards. 21. Vim, Vigour and Vitality: 'Power' Foods for Kids in Canadian Popular Magazines, 1914-1954 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh22. Making and Breaking Canada's Food Rules: Science, the State, and the Government of Nutrition, 1942-1949 / Ian Mosby -- 23. 'A National Priority': Nutrition Canada's Survey and the Disciplining of Aboriginal Bodies, 1964-75 / Krista Walters.
Note:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection
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Also available in print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
