Click to enlargeFEASTING & FASTING

Edited by Harlan Walker. 230 pages.

OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD AND COOKERY
1990 PROCEEDINGS


CONTENTS

FASTS & FEASTS - AN INTRODUCTION
Theodore Zeldin ---------- 1

TRADITIONAL FOODWAYS, FAST AND FEAST
Astri Riddervold ---------- 2

THREE WHOLE DAYS TO AN END. THE NORWEGIAN PEASANT WEDDING FEAST AS A SOCIAL MIRROR
Bjorn Fjellheim ---------- 7

FROM EVERYDAY DIET TO FEAST FOOD: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE HEMSEDAL COUNTRY DISTRICT IN NORWAY
Marit Ekne Ruud ---------- 11

THE WAY THE CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ASSYRIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST TAKE FOOD DURING FASTS AND CHURCH HOLIDAYS
Michael Abdalla ---------- 15

THE FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS
Joan P. Alcock ---------- 27

EMMA'S WEDDING FEAST - A GLANCE AT FLAUBERT'S MADAME BOVARY
Rose Arnold ---------- 49

KALACH, KOLATCH, KULITCH- CHALLAH?
Josephine Bacon ---------- 53

THE BLACK OR HELL BANQUET
Professor Phyllis P. Bober ---------- 55

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY SHISH KEBAB MYSTERY
Robert Chenciner ---------- 58

IGUANAS, CHOCOLATE, MUSKRATS, AND A GLIMPSE AT COCHINEAL
Dr. Sophie D. Coe ---------- 65

ON THE EDGE OF THE FEAST. OUTSIDERS IN EARLY GREECE
Andrew Dalby ---------- 69

TRADITION AND MNOVATION IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST OUTDOOR FEAST
John Doerper ---------- 73

BELOW-THE-SALT COOKERY
Christopher Driver ---------- 78

FEASTS OF THE FUR TRADERS
Dorothy Duncan ---------- 79

BUTTER BEFORE GUNS
Hugo Dunn-Meynell ---------- 81

FOOD FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS FROM SHROVE TIDE TO EASTER
Dr. Johanna M. P. Edema with Mrs. Katinka Hermans ---85

THE POLITICS AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TABLEWARE FOR FEASTING
Elizabeth Gabay ---------- 99

WHITE FOODS IN ANATOLIAN FEASTS
Nevin Halici ---------- 104

TEXAS BARBECUE: A FEAST FOR ALL CLASSES
Sharon Hudgins ---------- 106

NOTES ON FASTING AND FEASTING IN THAILAND
Philip Iddison ---------- 121

FASTING AND FEASTING AMONG OREGON'S RUSSIAN OLD BELIEVERS
Mary Wallace Kelsey ---------- 124

FASTING ON RUMFORDSCHE SUPPE (CIRCA 1791) AND WOOLTON PIE (CIRCA 1941).
FEASTING IN OXFORD, CAPENHURST AND HAMMERSMITH.
Nicholas Kurti ---------- 129

ROYAL FEASTS
Janet Laurence ---------- 138

FEASTING AFTER FASTING IN ARCHIB VILLAGE, DAGESTAN
Dr. Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov ---------- 152

THE ST. JOSEPH DAY ALTARS OF NEW ORLEANS
Richard C. Mieli ---------- 155

DUTCH TREATS OR FESTIVE FOOD IN AN AFFLUENT SOCIETY
Ileen Montijn ---------- 158

ELEMENTS OF ARAB FEASTING
Charles Perry ---------- 162

L'ORDRE DE BON TEMPS - GOOD CHEER AS THE ANSWER
Jo Marie Powers ---------- 164

BEANS FOR THE DEAD
Gillian Riley ---------- 173

THE FIRST COMMUNION BANQUET
Alicia Rios ---------- 175

A PERFECT FEAST! PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE AND DIET IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE
Brenda S. Rose ---------- 183

SERENDIPITY
Alice Wooledge Salmon ---------- 191

THE GOLDEN SPICE FROM ANCIENT PERSIA
Margaret Shaida ---------- 194

FEASTS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
Paul Stokes ---------- 198

FEASTS & FASTS. AS DESCRIBED, DOCUMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED IN THE JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY CULINARY ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
Louis I. Szathmary ---------- 202

'TWELFTH NIGHT'
Greta Verdin ---------- 207

FEASTS IN JORDAN AND THE TRANSKEI
Kathie Webber ---------- 208

OF SUGAR AND PORCELAIN. TABLE DECORATION IN THE NETHERLANDS IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Joop Witteveen ---------- 212

RAMADHAN: FASTING AND FEASTING
Sami Zubaida ---------- 222

DINNER ON SATURDAY EVENING - MENU AND RECIPES
Lisa Chaney and Harlan Walker ---------- 225

WELSH FOODS AND DRINKS OFFERED AT LUNCH ON 23RD SEPTEMBER
Gilli Davies ---------- 230

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