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Chapter 1

Fasting Regulations in the Reformation Era [+]

Ken Albala

Chapter 2

Shrouding the Caucasus: Georgian Hospitality Rituals through the French Gaze [+]

Janet Beizer

Chapter 3

Negotiating the Availability and Consumption of Halal Food in Tokyo [+]

Kirsty Bouwers

Chapter 4

Black, White, and Tan: The Rules and Rituals of a Jim Crow-Era ‘Spook Breakfast’ in Kansas City, Missouri, 1935–1939 [+]

Andrea Broomfield

Chapter 5

Food Rules and Rituals: Etiquette on the Cosmic Table [+]

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus

Chapter 6

Spaghetti – Never on Sunday…well, almost never : Structure and Rules in an Endocuisine [+]

Anthony F. Buccini

Chapter 7

A Battle at the Bar: The Pintxo’s Conflict between Codification and Authenticity in Real Time [+]

Marti Buckley

Chapter 8

Reforming Body and Soul: Malta’s Prison Food Experience, 1920–1939 [+]

Noel Buttigieg

Chapter 9

Kaiseki Cuisine and the Meanings of Food in Japan [+]

Voltaire Cang

Chapter 10

Boundaries, Bitters, and Puffing Guns: The Sensorial Unmaking of the Food Museum [+]

Jessica Carbone

Chapter 11

The Roman Napkin: From Simple Tools to Status Symbols [+]

Scott A. Cochrane

Chapter 12

From Farm (and Forest) to Table: The Food and Feeding Rituals of Benjamin and Ruth Koren [+]

Tali Cohen

Chapter 13

Eat Your Riddles: Puzzling Practices and Dining Diversions [+]

Nathalie Cooke

Chapter 14

Exploring the Relationships between Rituals and Food at Oxford Colleges Formal Halls [+]

D Devika

Chapter 15

Corn, Beans, and Squashing Colonialism: Anishinaabe Food and Law-Making [+]

Cass Gardiner

Chapter 16

From Recipes to Remote Work: Technology’s Influence on the Preservation and Evolution of Contemporary Food Rituals during Covid-19 [+]

Mandira Ghai

Chapter 17

Versatile Ritual: Structure, Resistance, and Culinary Virtuosity in the Israeli Mimouna [+]

Rafi Grosglik,André Levy

Chapter 18

Early Twentieth-Century Viennese Cake-Mix: Changing the Rules, Erasing the Recipe [+]

Naomi Guttman

Chapter 19

Rituals of Hygiene in the Cathedral of Meat [+]

Jack Hanlon

Chapter 20

Food Rules in the Pride Lands [+]

Laura Kitchings

Chapter 21

Berches : A Ritual Bread in Its Cultural Contexts [+]

Petra Kopf,Susan Weingarten

Chapter 22

Connecting Crumbs: An Intellectual and Information Science History of Special Food Collections [+]

James Edward Malin

Chapter 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

Chapter 24

Rice Stories: Rituals of Prosperity and Fertility [+]

Rebecca D. Mazumdar

Chapter 25

Eating and Feeding Rituals and Edicts in Persianate Societies: From Sofreh to Tārof, Nazri, and Beyond [+]

Nader Mehravari

Chapter 26

The Hospitality Spectre: A Letter of Complaint to the Late Philosopher Jacques Derrida from a Disgruntled Hospitality Business Operator [+]

Jennie Moran

Chapter 27

Changing Food Rules and Rituals in Indigenous Tokunoshima [+]

Hanika Nakagawa

Chapter 28

Irish Harvest Rituals and Customs: A Study of Food in Irish Folklore Archives [+]

Caitríona Nic Philibín

Chapter 29

‘Perfectly Civilised and Proper’: The Social and Cultural History of Blood as Food in Ireland [+]

Kate Ryan

Chapter 30

Never Eat Pidgeon with Pumpkin: A Model of the Emergence of Food Superstitions [+]

Anders Sandberg,Len Fisher

Chapter 31

Miraculous Water and the Concept of Barakah: Cooking with Rainwater, Water – Drinking, and Smoking Jugs in Saudi Hijaz [+]

Salma Serry

Chapter 32

Maintaining, Adapting, and Creating Tradition on the Colonial Australian Christmas Table, 1788 – 1901 [+]

Madeline Shanahan

Chapter 33

The Enduring Rule of Red Meat with Red Wine [+]

Richard Warren Shepro

Chapter 34

Vegan Studies for the Global South? Negotiating Dietary Rules in a Warming World [+]

Ben Jamieson Stanley

Chapter 35

Rhyming Recipes: The Curious Case of the Liber Cure Cocorum [+]

Florence Swan

Chapter 36

Regarding the Lesbian Potluck [+]

Kate Thomas

Chapter 37

Fortune, Dog Meat, and Cosmic Accounting: The Vietnamese Feast of Bad Luck [+]

Khanh-Linh Trinh

Chapter 38

Large Double Double: How Tim Hortons Coffee Ritualizes Canadian Identity [+]

Ann Urbancic