Edited by Harlan Walker. 240 pages.
OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD AND COOKERY
1998 PROCEEDINGS
CONTENTS
Introduction ---------- 7
Other Papers Read to the Symposium ----- 9
Food in the Detective Novel
Joan P. Alcock ---------- 13
Food and the Indigenous Arts of Bengal
Chitrita Banerji ---------- 31
Dining with Gustave Courbet
Lise M. Battaglia ---------- 41
Food in Santeria
Andrew Coe ---------- 50
Sculpture for the Eighteenth-Century Garden Dessert
Ivan Day ---------- 57
The Splendid Processions of Trade Guilds
at Ottoman Festivals
Meryle Evans ---------- 67
Food and Drink Imagery in the Kinks' Music, 1964-94
Elizabeth Field ---------- 73
Sex and 'Coagulated Sunlight':
Butter in Literary Context
Christine Finn ---------- 84
Memorable Food Moments in American Film
Barbara Haber ---------- 90
Lyrical Food
Maurice Holt ---------- 98
The Disgusting Dinner of Salvador Dali
Robert Irwin ---------- 103
Ingres's Turkish Delights
Maria Kaneva-Johnson ---------- 113
Orange Wrappers
David Karp ---------- 119
The Cook as Artist?
Gilly Lehman ---------- 125
The Food of the 'Arabian Nights'
Charles Perry ---------- 134
The Edible Monument
Marcia Reed ---------- 141
Gastronomy in the Still-Life Paintings
of Luis Melendez
Gillian Riley ---------- 151
Food in Medieval Dreams
Ann Rycraft ---------- 164
Brewing and Baking in Ancient Egyptian Art
Delwin Samuel ---------- 173
The Poetry of Persian Food
Margaret Shaida ---------- 182
Food Noir:
Food's Role in Dark, Foreboding Film Classics
Art Siemering ---------- 190
In Praise of Maize:
The Rise and Fall of Corny Poetry
Andy Smith ---------- 197
Cockaigne: The Ultimate Hallucination
Colin Spencer ---------- 206
The Dining-Room as Work of Art
Margaret Willes ---------- 213
Food on the Silver Screen
Susan Wolk and Maria-Jose Sevilla ----- 218
Depictions of the Last Supper
Carolin C. Young ---------- 223
Banquets in Gogol's Dead Souls
Sami Zubaida ---------- 237
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