Description
Edited by Mark McWilliams
United States Naval Academy
Food Rules and Rituals includes selected papers from the 2023 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from around the globe consider how rules and rituals structure the experiences and meanings of consuming foods in a wide variety of contexts
Table of Contents
1. Fasting Regulations in the Reformation Era
Ken Albala
2. Shrouding the Caucasus: Georgian Hospitality Rituals through the French Gaze
Janet Beizer
3. Negotiating the Availability and Consumption of Halal Food in Tokyo
Kirsty Bouwers
4. Black, White, and Tan: The Rules and Rituals of a Jim Crow-Era ‘Spook Breakfast’ in Kansas City, Missouri, 1935–1939
Andrea Broomfield
5. Food Rules and Rituals: Etiquette on the Cosmic Table
Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
6. Spaghetti – Never on Sunday…well, almost never : Structure and Rules in an Endocuisine
Anthony F. Buccini
7. A Battle at the Bar: The Pintxo’s Conflict between Codification and Authenticity in Real Time
Marti Buckley
8. Reforming Body and Soul: Malta’s Prison Food Experience, 1920–1939
Noel Buttigieg
9. Kaiseki Cuisine and the Meanings of Food in Japan
Voltaire Cang
10. Boundaries, Bitters, and Puffing Guns: The Sensorial Unmaking of the Food Museum
Jessica Carbone
11. The Roman Napkin: From Simple Tools to Status Symbols
Scott A. Cochrane
12. From Farm (and Forest) to Table: The Food and Feeding Rituals of Benjamin and Ruth Koren
Tali Cohen
13. Eat Your Riddles: Puzzling Practices and Dining Diversions
Nathalie Cooke
14. Exploring the Relationships between Rituals and Food at Oxford Colleges Formal Halls
D Devika
15. Corn, Beans, and Squashing Colonialism: Anishinaabe Food and Law-Making
Cass Gardiner
16. From Recipes to Remote Work: Technology’s Influence on the Preservation and Evolution of Contemporary Food Rituals during Covid-19
Mandira Ghai
17. Versatile Ritual: Structure, Resistance, and Culinary Virtuosity in the Israeli Mimouna
Rafi Grosglik,André Levy
18. Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Cake-Mix: Changing the Rules, Erasing the Recipe
Naomi Guttman
19. Rituals of Hygiene in the Cathedral of Meat
Jack Hanlon
20. Food Rules in the Pride Lands
Laura Kitchings
21. Berches : A Ritual Bread in Its Cultural Contexts
Petra Kopf,Susan Weingarten
22. Connecting Crumbs: An Intellectual and Information Science History of Special Food Collections
James Edward Malin
23. A Diabetic’s Digest: What Following 183 People with Diabetes in India, Denmark, USA, and China Taught Me about Designing Rituals for Coping
Priya Mani
24. Rice Stories: Rituals of Prosperity and Fertility
Rebecca D. Mazumdar
25. Eating and Feeding Rituals and Edicts in Persianate Societies: From Sofreh to Tārof, Nazri, and Beyond
Nader Mehravari
26. The Hospitality Spectre: A Letter of Complaint to the Late Philosopher Jacques Derrida from a Disgruntled Hospitality Business Operator
Jennie Moran
27. Changing Food Rules and Rituals in Indigenous Tokunoshima
Hanika Nakagawa
28. Irish Harvest Rituals and Customs: A Study of Food in Irish Folklore Archives
Caitríona Nic Philibín
29. ‘Perfectly Civilised and Proper’: The Social and Cultural History of Blood as Food in Ireland
Kate Ryan
30. Never Eat Pidgeon with Pumpkin: A Model of the Emergence of Food Superstitions
Anders Sandberg,Len Fisher
31. Miraculous Water and the Concept of Barakah: Cooking with Rainwater, Water – Drinking, and Smoking Jugs in Saudi Hijaz
Salma Serry
32. Maintaining, Adapting, and Creating Tradition on the Colonial Australian Christmas Table, 1788 – 1901
Madeline Shanahan
33. The Enduring Rule of Red Meat with Red Wine
Richard Warren Shepro
34. Vegan Studies for the Global South? Negotiating Dietary Rules in a Warming World
Ben Jamieson Stanley
35. Rhyming Recipes: The Curious Case of the Liber Cure Cocorum
Florence Swan
36. Regarding the Lesbian Potluck
Kate Thomas
37. Fortune, Dog Meat, and Cosmic Accounting: The Vietnamese Feast of Bad Luck
Khanh-Linh Trinh
38. Large Double Double: How Tim Hortons Coffee Ritualizes Canadian Identity
Ann Urbancic
