Click to enlargeTHE COOKING POT

Edited by Tom Jaine. 184 pages.

OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD & COOKERY
1988 PROCEEDINGS



CONTENTS

COOKING POTS USED IN PRESENT DAY ASSYRIAN VILLAGE KITCHENS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Michael Abdalla ---------- 7

THE PRIMITIVE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Margi Beyers ---------- 12

THE MAYA CHOCOLATE POT AND ITS DESCENDANTS
Sophie D. Coe ---------- 15

GETTING A HANDLE ON POTS AND PANS
Shirley Collins ---------- 22

PACIFIC NORTHWEST INDIAN COOKING VESSELS
John Doerper & Alf Collins ---------- 28

A HIGHLANDS MUMU IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Catherine Driver ---------- 44

RE-CREATING HOMINY: THE ONE-POT BREAKFAST FOOD OF THE GENTRY AND STAPLE OF BLACKS AND POOR WHITES IN THE EARLY CHESAPEAKE
Patricia A. Gibbs ---------- 46

ONE POT COOKERY AND SOME COMMENTS ON ITS ICONOGRAPHY
Bertram M. Gordon and Lisa Jacobs-McCusker ---------- 55

FALSE TRADITIONS: POTS IN THE NEW HEBRIDES
Vicky Hayward ---------- 68

THE COOKING POT AS A SOCIAL INDICATOR OF SHORTAGE: SOME EXAMPLES FROM GERMAN HISTORY
Thomas Kutsch ---------- 71

MY FAVOURITE COOKING POT
Max Lake ---------- 80

THE IDEAL POT
Chuck Lemme ---------- 82

FIRST CATCH YOUR MAN
Jeremy MacClancy ---------- 99

THE VALENCIAN PAELLA--ITS ORIGIN, TRADITION AND UNIVERSALITY
Lourdes March ---------- 102

THE COOKING POT IN CHINA
Anne and Gerald Nicholls ---------- 111

THE HUMOURS OF THE POT
Charles Perry ---------- 123

THE PESTLE AND MORTAR
Alicia Rios ---------- 125

A MEDITERRANEAN'S FEELINGS TOWARDS THE COOKING POT
Rena Salaman ---------- 136

TESTO, TEGAMO, TIELLA, TIAN: THE MEDITERRANEAN CAMP OVEN
Barbara Santich ---------- 139

PECULIAR POTS IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Terence Scully ---------- 143

MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Raymond Sokolov ---------- 148

KAIKU--ANCIENT BASQUE UTENSILS
Maria Jose de Sevilla Taylor ---------- 153

POTS FROM AN EMIR'S PALACE
Jill Tilsley-Benham ---------- 156

KITCHEN CHATTELS: THE EVOLUTION OF FAMILIAR OBJECTS 1200-1700
Rosemary Weinstein ---------- 168

THE COOKING POTTER MAKES A COOKING POT
Mary Wondrausch ---------- 183


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