Food, Culture, and Community

Volume 6 Number 2


Food Culture and Community

Description

The essays in this volume are indebted to Alan Davidson's seminal work on food culture and gastronomy. They discuss the role played by food in community building, ceremony, festival, celebration,daily meals and forage, and explore the profoundly cohesive memory work of eating.

  • Contents
    • EDITORIAL
      • Lynette Hunter
    • POETRY
      • Jennifer Davidson, AED
    • ARTICLES
      • READING MOMENTS IN TIME
        • Peter Brears, Traditional Foods in England?
        • Elizabeth Constable, French and English Dining Cultures in

          Tickletooth’s 1860 Stew

        • Elizabeth Driver, Home Cooks, Book Makers and Community Builders

          in Canada

        • Constance B. Hieatt, How a Concordance Serves the Community of

          Food Scholars

        • Tom Jaine, Middle-class Cookery
        • Timothy Morton, Percy Shelley, Snacker Poet
        • Barbara Santich, The Communities of Food Scholars
      • READING MOMENTS IN PLACE
        • Pamela Davidson, Food and Community in Soviet Russia:

          From Bulgarian Beans to Polish Plums

        • Ove Fosså, Sometimes a Sardine is Just a Sardine
        • Richard Hosking, Japanese Family Festivals and their Food
        • Lynette Hunter, Sharing, Preparing and Eating

          in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut

        • Rachel Laudan, Semitas, Semitic Bread, and the Search for Community:

          A Culinary Detective Story

        • Jane Levi, Conviviality in Microgravity
        • Laura Mason, Bullivant and Daughters
        • Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir, Making Leafbread:

          The Bread that Makes You Belong

        • Helen Saberi, Picnicking in Afghanistan
        • Amina Soulieman, The First Meal I Cooked: Somali Women’s Stories
      • PERFORMANCE
        • Alicia Rios, Eat Art and Communities: From Oxford to Melbourne
      • (AUTO)BIOGRAPHY
        • Caroline Davidson, Marshalling Computers to Autobiography:

          The Moving Worlds of Alan Davidson’s ‘Autobiographical Fragments’

      • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS