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’