{"product_id":"edible-histories-cultural-politics-9781442612839","title":"Edible Histories Cultural Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context  of community, region, nation and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on findings from menus, cookbooks, government  documents, advertisements, media sources, oral histories, memoirs, and archival collections, Edible Histories offers a veritable feast  of original  research on Canada's food history and its relationship to culture and politics. This exciting collection explores  a wide  variety of topics, including urban restaurant culture, ethnic  cuisines, and the controversial history of margarine in Canada. It also covers a broad time-span, from early contact between European  settlers and First Nations through the end of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdible Histories\u003c\/em\u003e intertwines information of Canada's 'foodways\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I can think of no comparable work in any national historiography comprising such a broad range of cutting-edge research in the field of food studies... The editors have done a splendid job.' -- Jeffrey M. Pilcher Labour\/Le Travail vol 73:2014 'Impressive collection of papers... Edible Histories, Cultural Politics provides remarkable, insightful, and eminently readable servings for students, academics, and interested general readers.' -- Gillian Crowther Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:01:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents   Preface    Introduction   I Cultural Exchanges and Cuisines in the Contact Zone    1. 'Fit for the table of the most fastidious epicure':   Culinary Colonialism in the Upper Canadian Contact Zone   2. 'The snipe were good and the wine not bad':   Enabling Public Life for Privileged Men    3. The Role of Food in Canadian Expressions of Christianity    II Regional Food Identities and Traditions   4.   Pine-clad hills and spindrift swirl:   The Character, Persistence, and Significance of Rural Newfoundland Foodways\t   5. Stocking the Root Cellar:   Foodscapes in the Peace River Region       6. Rational Meals for the Traditional Family:    Nutrition in Quebec School Manuals, 1900-1960    III Foodways and Memories in Ethnic and Racial Communities     7. 'We Didn't Have A Lot of Money, But We Had Food':   Ukrainians and Their Depression-Era Food Memories   8. Feeding the Dead:  The Ukrainian Food Colossi of the Canadian Prairies       9. Toronto's Multicultured Tongues: Stories of South Asian Cuisines    IV Gendering Food in Cookbooks and Family Spaces        10. More than 'just' Recipes:   Mennonite Cookbooks in Mid-twentieth Century North America   11. Gefilte Fish and Roast Duck with Orange Slices:   A Treasure for my Daughter and the Creation of a Jewish Cultural Orthodoxy   in Postwar Montreal   12. 'Tutti a Tavola!' Feeding the Family in Two Generations of   Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal    V Single Food Commodities, Markets, and Cultural Debates       13. John Bull and Sons:   The Empire Marketing Board and the Creation of a British Imperial Food System\t   14. Spreading Controversy: The Story of Margarine in Quebec    VI Protests, Mindful Eating, and the Politics of Food       15. The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s\t   16. 'Less Inefficiency, More Milk':   The Politics of Food and the Culture of the English-Canadian University, 1900-1950     17. The Granola High: Eating Differently in the 1960s and 1970s\t   18. 'Meat Stinks\/Eat Beef Dyke!': Coming out as a Vegetarian in the Prairies    VII National Identities and Cultural Spectacles       19. Nationalism on the Menu: Three Banquets on the 1939 Royal Tour\t   20. Food Acts and Cultural Politics: \tWomen and the Gendered Dialectics of Culinary Pluralism at the   International Institute of Toronto, 1950s-1960s    VIII Marketing and Imposing Nutritional Standards     21. Vim, Vigour and Vitality:   'Power' Foods for Kids in Canadian Popular Magazines, 1914-1954    22. Making and Breaking Canada's Food Rules:   Science, the State, and the Government of Nutrition, 1942-1949\t   23. 'A National Priority':   Nutrition Canada's Survey and the Disciplining of Aboriginal Bodies, 1964-75\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739212230999,"sku":"9781442612839","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442612839.jpg?v=1720051507","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/edible-histories-cultural-politics-9781442612839","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}