Vegetables

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Oxford Symposium

Vegetables

Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2008

In this continuing series, the topic of vegetables embraces a wide range of pieces from English, American and overseas scholars. Their treatments encompass both a broader consideration of the vegetable diet and the history of the cultivation and consumption of specific varieties. Cookery and consumption are not highlighted at the expense of cultivation, so there are some interesting essays on allotments, market gardening in the Paris region, early-modern vegetable gardening in England and the development of markets in India. The theme has been treated with admirable latitude in contributions on vegetables and diplomacy, vegetable carving, and vegetables in Renaissance art.

Contents

Vegetable Carving: For Your Eyes Only	Julia Abramson
The War of the Vegetables: The Rise and Fall of the English Allotment Movement	Lesley Acton
The First Scientific Defense of a Vegetarian Diet	Ken Albala
The Roman Vegetable Garden	Joan P. Alcock
The Bitter – and Flatulent – Aphrodisiac: Synchrony and Diachrony of the Culinary Use of Muscari Comosum in Greece and Italy	Anthony F. Buccini
We Talked About the Aubergines: International Diplomacy and the Cretan Diet	Andrew Dalby
The Carrot Purple	Joel S. Denker
Listening to Vegetables	Len Fisher and Nick Sorensen
Vegetables as a Symbol in Design and Art	Anna Marie Fisker & Tenna Doktor Olsen
An Edible Wild Thistle from the Lebanese Mountains	Anissa Helou
Allotment Diaries	Phil Iddison
Salvation in Sweetness? Sugar Beets in Antebellum America	Cathy K. Kaufman
Up on the Farm: The Role of Vegetables in Conquering Space	Jane Levi
The History of the Potato in Irish Cuisine and Culture	Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Pádraic Óg Gallagher
‘Sweet as’– Notes on the Kumara or New Zealand Sweet Potato as a Taonga or Treasure	Ray McVinnie
The American Pumpkin	Mark McWilliams
Wild Thing: The Naga Morich Story	Michael Michaud and Joy Michaud
‘Per rape et porri et per spinachi’: Examining the Realities of Vegetable Consumption at the Monastery of Santa Trinità in Post-Plague Florence	Salvatore Musumeci
The Maraîchers – Market Gardeners of the Ile-de-France	Lizabeth Nicol
The Southern California Vegetable Cult	Charles Perry
From the Plate to the Palate: Visual Delights from the Vegetable Kingdoms of Italy	Gillian Riley
The Still-life Painter	Alicia Ríos; translated by Raymond Sokolov; photographs by Johanna Hecht
But, Did the English Eat Their Vegetables? A Look at English Kitchen Gardens, and the Vegetable Cookery they Imply	William Rubel
Who Put the Leeks in Cock-a-leekie Soup?	Allyson E. Sgro
Bone-dry Freshness: Dried Vegetables	Aylin Öney Tan and Filiz Hösükoğlu
Dokonjo Daikon: The Radish with the Fighting Spirit	Michelle Toratani
The Pomtajer	Karin Vaneker
A Vegetable Zodiac from Late Antique Alexandria	Susan Weingarten