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Food and Power
Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2019
Food & Power (Oxford Symposium 2019) was a vivacious gathering, and the debates were heated. The Jane Grigson lecture came from Joanna Blythman, on the differences between the natural, homely world, and that of commerce, resulting in food ‘pyramids’, for example how a traditional diet of fish and seal fat, the Innuit diet, can be seen to be the top of a pyramid shape, with the carbohydrates and fatty processed foods they sadly consume now forming the wide base.
From Brexit food security to hunger strikes, feminist restaurants in 1970s Chicago, to lower class diners in Belle Époque France, the symposium formed both opinions and new impressions.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Mark McWilliams
Plenary Papers
Foodnight
Len Fisher, Janet Clarkson, and Elisabeth Luard
The Power of Enjoyment in the Face of Industrialized Food
Joanna Blythman
Serving Up A Slice of Africa: Reading Empire Adventure Stories as Textual Blancmanges of National Identity, Power, and Race
Siobhan Dooley
A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, London, and the Political Power of Food
Carolyn Steel
Symposium Papers
Forging the Future, Making Peace with the Past: The Case of Ammachi Canteens in Sri Lanka
Vidya Balachander
Shooting them Softly: Photographing Lower-Class Eaters in Belle Époque Paris
Janet Beizer
Gastrodiplomacy and the UK Diplomatic Network
Paul Brummell
Sushi, Sake, and Women
Voltaire Cang
Food as Power in the Letters of Isabella d’Este
Allison Fisher
Food Production, Consumption, and Resistance by Japanese Americans Incarcerated by the United States Government During World War II
Paula I. Fujiwara
The Muckamuck: Restaurants, Labour, and the Power of Representation
Sasha Gora
Starving for Rights: Hunger Strikes as Weapons of Resistance inside Farms and Prisons in the United States
Melissa Gouge and Jennifer Hostetter
Eating French, Being French: Gastronomy and National Identity in Contemporary France
Jennifer Holm
Marxist Analysis, in My Food Technology? Fuzzy Legibility, Flavour Connections, and the Recent Dialectical Emergence of Post-Modernity in Cuisine
Arielle Johnson
Counter Narratives: American and Canadian Feminist Restaurants from 1972 to the Present
Alex D. Ketchum
Weaponizing Food: Communism, the Democratic Transition, and the Transformation of Taste
Dorota Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz
Sugar and Show: Power, Conspicuous Display, and Sweet Banquets during Henri III’s 1574 Visit to Venice
Michael Krondl
Making Yakiniku Japanese: Erasing the Korean Contribution from Japan’s Food Culture
Christopher Laurent
The Community Cookbook as a Vehicle of Women’s Empowerment in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America
Don Lindgren
The Power of Eating Together, or the Story of Why Banquets Were the Core of Marriage in the Past
Andrea Maraschi
Not in One Place: Parenteral Nutrition and Time-Space Compression
Jacob A. Matthews
Encounters of Food and Power in the Australian Colonial Contact Zone
Frieda Moran
Meat and Power in Communist Romania
Simona Moti
Going Hungry in the Magdalene laundries, 1922-1996
Guilia Nicolini and Alice Mulhearn-Williams
Cooking in Calais: Resistance to the Food Desert in Northern France
Féilim Ó Cuireáin
Everything but the Kitchen Syndicate: How Parisian Cuisinières Cleaned up their Reputation by Tapping into Social Stereotypes
Samantha Presnal
Sustainable Gastronomy: Power and Energy Use in Food
Christian Reynolds
Mom vs. the FDA: How One Woman Got the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Correct Their Evaluation of the Mid-Atlantic Golden Tilefish
Charity Robey
Perceptions of Food and Italy’s Colonization of Libya, 1911-1912
Or Rosenboim
‘To Make the Whole World Homelike’: Gender and Power in the Food Revolution
Laura Shapiro
True Bread, Pizza Napoletana, and Wedding Cakes: The Changing Ways Legal Power Has Shaped Bakers’ Lives
Richard Shepro
I’ll Tell You How to Cook to Tell You Who I Am: The Culinary Identity Constructions of the Eaton Sisters
Koby Song-Nichols
Lebanese Sea Power: Food and the Phoenicians
David Sutton
Cannibalism and Power: Resituating the Narratives of Post-Soviet Foodways Through Vladimir Sorokin’s Feast
Svetlana Tcareva
The Shared Power of Hunger Artists and the Viennese Actionists
Carolyn Tillie
Empire of Wheat: Bread, Power, and Colonialism in the French Empire (1890-1940)
Nicholas Tošaj
The Power of Laws and Lies in the Italian Fascist Kitchen
Anne Urbancic
Subsistence Depression in Alaska: Who Gets Paid?
Nina Vizcarrondo
