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The '''history of food''' is a cultural study that involves multidisciplinary approaches from economics, sociology and demography, and even literature. Food is not simply planted, harvested, processed, transported, sold, and consumed—rather historians explore the many and complex roles that food plays as nutrient, symbol, and theme in everyday life, in aristocratic and royal circles, and in religious codes. When the food supply fails, disaster strikes.  Food is an ideal entry point for the cultural historian seeking to uncover hidden levels of meaning in social relationships.  Food plays a vital symbolic role in celebrations and religious ceremonies and is an important marker of social status, gender identity, and ethnic, religious, and national affiliations. Modernization has intensified the importance of food in society. Food production, preparation, marketing, and consumption are intimately connected with modern and postmodern trends such as industrialization, the rise of mass media, economic globalization, multiculturalism and the changing position of women.
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==International trade==
 
==International trade==

Revision as of 14:16, January 24, 2010

Food is solid or liquid nutrient that is ingested by an organism for energy and nourishment. The leading foods for humans are rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, potatoes, sugar, fish, milk, and meat.

Several kinds of bread and grain

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International trade

The study of the international flow of food has been a staple of the scholarly literature; for example, the spices and aromatics that linked Europe to the Middle East, and Asia. (It is a hoary myth that the spices were used to disguise rancid meat.) In the 19th century Europe, looking for more interesting fats, turned to palms, coconuts, and peanuts imported from their colonial possessions; by the 1960s the newly independent former colonies had to compete with the increasing supplies of soybean oil from the United States. Then after 2006 soybean fields were replanted with corn to produce ethanol, a heavily subsidized substitute for gasoline.

Europe

An Italian family eating spaghetti

Until the 20th century, the peasants and the poor of Europe ate mostly bread (or pasta), supplemented by vegetables and fish. Meat was reserved for special occasions. English peasants in the medieval period experienced seasonal fluctuation in the availability of food, but extreme scarcity and widespread mortality was rare except for the early fourteenth century, especially during the great famine of 1315-1318. However by 1400 portions of meat, fish, and ale increased; roasting and frying started to replace the traditional cooking technique of boiling; and agricultural prosperity in England ushered in an era of cheap and plentiful food. By the twentieth century, per capita consumption of bread had dropped off precipitously due to social and economic modernization and the availability of a wider choice of foods.

World War I

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World War II

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Communist systems

The Communist systems of Eastern Europe and China privileged industrial workers, at the expense of farmers. Major famines took place in the Russian Ukraine in the 1930s (as the government removed grain from the countryside to force people to move to the cities), and in China (1959-61).

In Poland after 1945 modernization was accompanied by demands for more meat instead of bread by workers and in time also by the peasants. The new demands on meat production could not be met because of the government's policy of investing in factories, not farms. Increasing the performance of the government was measured by the availability of meat, and the performance was poor. Fearing mass protests, the Communist party did not balance the market by raising prices but instead spent its money on growing subsidies to keep food prices low. Every attempt to raise price caused grumbling; twice (1970, 1976) the government had to reverse the increases. By 1980 the scale of the imbalance of demand and supply led to the introduction of controls of meat and processed meat products, a system that broke down in 1989, when in view of roundtable talks and rumors about anticipated price increases, the farmers simply ceased selling meat. The final solution was introducing market prices in the summer of 1989. The chronic imbalance of supply and demand can be related to the coexistence of a system of trading and distributing food products that from 1948 was state-owned and subjected to the directives of the Communist ideologues and an agricultural sector comprising private farms and reacted to market stimuli.[1]

China

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Japan

Japanese farmers as late as the 1950s spent most of their income on rice as their staple diet and on fish and shellfish as subsidiary items. Landowning farmers, with higher incomes, also purchased meat, dairy products, and eggs. By the 1930s both groups had started making small purchases of Western-style "luxury" foods, nontraditional seasonings, and fruits.

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Historiography

In the late 20th century with the growth of cultural studies and the new social history, the history of food began attracting more scholarly attention. Two book series appeared, Food in American History series by Greenwood Press, and Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History series by Columbia U. Press.

Basic further reading

  • Achaya, K. T. A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food (2002) excerpt and text search
  • Ashkenazi, Michael and Jacob, Jeanne. Food Culture in Japan. 2003. 207 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Civitello, Linda. Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People (2007) excerpt and text search
  • Davidson, Alan, et al, eds. The Oxford Companion to Food (2nd Ed 2006), 907 pages with 2,650 entries covering the world's foods, seasoning, cuisine, cooking methods, chefs, historical developments, and myths. ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198221064&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search
  • Federico, Giovanni. Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000. (2005). 388 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. Free Press, 2002. 258 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. 2004. 258 pp.
  • Freedman, Paul. ';'Food: The History of Taste (California Studies in Food and Culture) (2007)
  • Gabaccia, Donna. We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans Harvard University Press, (1998). 278 pages. excerpt and text search
  • Grew, Raymond. Food in Global History 1999 online edition
  • Kiple, Kenneth F. and Ornelas, Kriemhild C., ed. The Cambridge World History of Food. 2 vol. (2000). 1958 pp. The most complete world history; especially strong on issues of nutrition and health excerpt and text search
  • Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (1993) excerpt and text search
  • Oddy, Derek J. From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s. 2003. 269 pp. online edition
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey. Food In World History (2005) excerpt and text search
  • Ogle. Maureen. Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer (2007) excerpt and text search
  • Scholliers, Peter. Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages Berg, 2001 online edition
  • Simoons, Frederick J. Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry (1990) excerpt and text search
  • Smith, Andrew F. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2004), 2 vol, 1584 pages excerpt and text search from Amazon.com
  • Spencer, Colin. British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. 2003. 416 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Basil Blackwell, 1992. 801 pp.; popular history from perspective of a French chef
  • Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham. Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. 341 pp.

Advanced bibliography

Surveys

  • Davidson, Alan, et al, eds. The Oxford Companion to Food (2nd Ed 2006), 907 pages with 2,650 entries covering the world's foods, seasoning, cuisine, cooking methods, chefs, historical developments, and myths. excerpt and text search
  • Freedman, Paul, ed. Food: The History of Taste (2007), essays by scholars
  • Grew, Raymond. Food in Global History Westview Press, 1999 online edition
  • Kiple, Kenneth F. and Ornelas, Kriemhild C., ed. The Cambridge World History of Food. 2 vol. Cambridge U. Press, 2000. 1958 pp. The most complete world history; especially strong on issues of nutrition and health excerpt and text search
  • Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. Free Press, 2002. 258 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Flandrin, Jean-Louis, and Massimo Montanari, eds. Food. A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (1999), 40 essays on Europe by French scholars
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey. Food In World History (2005) excerpt and text search
  • Root, Waverley. Food, An Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World. Simon and Schuster, 1980. 602 pp. ISBN 0-671-22589-8
  • Super, John C. "Food and History" Journal of Social History 36.1 (2002) 165-178, review essay; in Project Muse
  • Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Basil Blackwell, 1992. 801 pp.; popular history from perspective of a French chef

Policy issues

  • Belasco, Warren and Scranton, Philip, ed. Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies. Routledge, 2002. 288 pp.
  • Bonanno, Alessandro et al., ed. From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food. U. Press of Kansas, 1994. 294 pp.
  • Cathie, John. The Political Economy of Food Aid. (1982). 200 pp.
  • Chetley, Andrew. The Politics of Baby Foods: Successful Challenges to an International Marketing Strategy. (1986). 189 pp.
  • Cook, Guy. Genetically Modified Language: The Discourse of Arguments for GM Crops and Food (2004) online edition
  • Evans, Lloyd T. Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth. Cambridge University Press (1998).
  • Federico, Giovanni. Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000. Princeton U. Press, 2005. 388 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Fletcher, Nichola. Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting. St. Martin's, 2005. 256 pp.
  • Fussell, Betty. The Story of Corn. U. of New Mexico Press, 2004. 356 pp.
  • Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History (2003)
  • Long, Lucy M., ed. Culinary Tourism. U. Press of Kentucky, 2004. 306 pp.
  • Paarlberg, Robert L. Food Trade and Foreign Policy: India, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Cornell U. Press, 1985. 266 pp.
  • Shaw, Gareth; Curth, Louise; and Alexander, Andrew. "Selling Self-service and the Supermarket: the Americanisation of Food Retailing in Britain, 1945-60." Business History 2004 46(4): 568-582. Issn: 0007-6791 Fulltext: Ebsco
  • Toke, Dave. The Politics of GM Food: A Comparative Study of the UK, USA, and EU (2004) online edition
  • Shaw, D. John. The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid Palgrave, 2001 online edition
  • Sen, Amartya. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation Oxford University Press, 1982 online edition
  • Wilson, C. Anne. Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation from Early Times to the Present Day Edinburgh University Press, 1991 online edition

Ancient and medieval

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  • Alcock, Joan P. Food in the Ancient World (Food through History) (2005)
  • Bober. Phyllis Pray. Art, Culture, and Cuisine. Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy (1999)
  • Carlin, Martha, and Joel T. Rosenthal (eds.) Food and Eating in Medieval Europe (1998).
  • Garnsey, Peter. Food and Society in Classical Antiquity Cambridge University Press, 1999 online edition

Europe

  • Burnett, John. England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present. (2004). 363 pp.
  • Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. U. of Chicago Press, 2004. 258 pp.
  • Glants, Musya and Toomre, Joyce, eds. Food in Russian History and Culture. Indiana U. Press, 1997. 304 pp. excerpt and text search from Amazon.com
  • Greenspoon, Leonard J. and Simkins, Ronald A., ed.; Shapiro, Gerald. Food and Judaism. Creighton U. Press, 2005. 345 pp.
  • Kaplan, Steven. Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Kaplan, Steven. The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 (1996), 758pp excerpt and text search
  • Oddy, Derek J. From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer, 2003. 269 pp. online edition
  • Rebora, Giovanni. Culture of the Fork: A Brief History of Food in Europe. Columbia U. Press, 2001. 196 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Scholliers, Peter. Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages Berg, 2001 online edition
  • Spencer, Colin. British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. Columbia U. Press, 2003. 416 pp. excerpt and text search* * Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham. Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. 341 pp.
  • Zuckerman, Larry. The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World. Faber & Faber, 1998. 304 pp.

Asia

  • Achaya, K. T. A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food (2002) excerpt and text search
  • Achaya, K. T. Indian Food: A Historical Companion. Oxford U. Press, 1994. 322 pp.
  • Anderson, E. N. The Food of China Yale U. Press, 1988. 263 pp.
  • Ashkenazi, Michael and Jacob, Jeanne. Food Culture in Japan. 2003. 207 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Cwiertka, Katarzyna and Walraven, Boudewijn, ed. Asian Food: The Global and the Local. Richmond, England: Curzon, 2002. 190 pp.
  • Farquhar, Judith. Appetites: Food and Sex in Postsocialist China. Duke U. Press, 2002. 341 pp.
  • Simoons, Frederick J. Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry (1990) excerpt and text search

Latin America

  • Abarca, Meredith E. Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-class Mexican and Mexican American Women (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Dunmire, William W. Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America. (2004). 375 pp. text search and preview
  • Ochoa, Enrique C. Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food Since 1910. Scholarly Resources, 2000. 267 pp.
  • Super, John C. and Wright, Thomas C., eds. Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America. U. of Nebraska Press, 1985. 261 pp.

United States and Canada

Actress Angela Lansbury 1954
  • Abarca, Meredith E. Voices in the Kitchen: Views of Food and the World from Working-class Mexican and Mexican American Women (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Arnold, Eleanor, ed. Feeding Our Families: Memories of Hoosier Homemakers. (Memories of Hoosier Homemakers series.) Indianapolis: Indiana Extension Homemakers Assoc., 1983. 153 pp.
  • Audet, Bernard. Se Nourrir au Quotidien en Nouvelle-France [Everyday eating habits in New France]. Quebec: Editions GID, 2001. 367 pp.
  • Bentley, Amy. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. U. of Illinois Press, 1998. 238
  • Bentley, Amy. “Booming Baby Food: Infant Food and Feeding in Post–World War II America,” Michigan Historical Review 32 (Fall 2006), 63–87.
  • Blunt, Katharine, et al. eds. Food Guide for War Service at Home, (1918) food situation in U.S. and Europe. online edition
  • Charlton, Mark W. The Making of Canadian Food Aid Policy. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1992. 242 pp.
  • Cinotto, Simone. "Leonard Covello, the Covello Papers, and the History of Eating Habits among Italian Immigrants in New York." Journal of American History 2004 91(2): 497-521. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: History Cooperative and Ebsco
  • Denker, Joel. The World on a Plate: A Tour through the History of America's Ethnic Cuisine. Westview, 2003. 196 pp.
  • Diner, Hasia R. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration. Harvard U. Press, 2001. 292 pp.
  • Gabaccia, Donna. We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans Harvard University Press, (1998). 278 pages. excerpt and text search
  • Goodwin, Lorine Swainston. The Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914. McFarland, 1999. 352 pp.
  • Levenstein, Harvey. Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (1993) excerpt and text search
  • Levenstein, Harvey. Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (1988). excerpt and text search
  • McFeely, Mary Drake. Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?: American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century (2000) excerpt and text search
  • McLean, Alice L. Cooking in America, 1840–1945. (Greenwood, 2006. xxx, 194 pp. isbn 0-313-33574-5.)
  • McWilliams, James E. A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America. (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History series.) Columbia U. Press, 2005. 386 pp.
  • Ogle. Maureen. Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer (2007) excerpt and text search
  • Oliver, Sandra L. Food in Colonial and Federal America. Greenwood, 2005. 230 pp. (Food in American History series.)
  • Parkin, Katherine J. Food Is Love: Food Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 296 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Smith, Andrew F. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2004), 2 vol, 1584 pages excerpt and text search from Amazon.com
  • Smith, Andrew F. The Turkey: An American Story. (University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxii, 224 pp. isbn 978-0-252-03163-2.) excerpt and text search
Uncooked pork chops
  • Smith, Andrew F. Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea. U. of Illinois Press, 2002. 234 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Smith, Andrew F. Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment. Smithsonian Inst. Press, 2001. 242 pp.
  • Stavely, Keith W. F. and Fitzgerald, Kathleen. America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking. U. of North Carolina Press, 2004. 396 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Williams, Susan. Food in the United States, 1820s–1890. (Greenwood, 2006. xvi, 240 pp. isbn 0-313-33245-2.)
  • Witt, Doris. Black Hunger: Soul Food and America. U. of Minnesota Press, 2004. 292 pp. online edition
A pampano dish

See also

notes

  1. ↑ Jerzy Kochanowski, "'Jestesmy Juz Przyzwyczajeni' Prolegomena Do Spoleczno - Modernizacyjnych Kulis 'Problemu Miesnego' W Prl," ["We've Become Accustomed": Prolegomena to the Social Modernization Background of the "Meat Problem" in the People's Republic of Poland]. Przeglad Historyczny 2005 96(4): 587-605. Issn: 0033-2186
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