Dining With the Victorians: A Delicious History - Rilegato

Kay, Emma

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ISBN 10: 1445646544 ISBN 13: 9781445646541

Casa editrice: Amberley Pub Plc, 2015

Riassunto

From traditional seaside holiday treats like candy floss, ice cream and fish n’ chips, to the British fascination for cooking and baking, the Victorian era has shaped British culinary heritage. Victoria’s austere attitude after an age of Regency indulgence generated enormous cultural change. Excess and gluttony were replaced with rigid tradition and morally upright values, and Victoria’s large family became the centre of the cultural imagination, with the power to begin new traditions. If Queen Victoria’s family sat down to turkey on Christmas day, so did the rest of the nation. Food was a significant part of the Victorians’ lives, whether they had too much of it or not enough. The destitute would be fed gruel in the workhouses the archetypal words of Dickens’s Oliver are imprinted on our minds: Please, sir, I want some more.’ The burgeoning street traders spilling over from the previous century devolved into a whole new culture of mudlarks’, trotter boilers, food slop traders and sewer toshers’, to name but a few. Wealthy Victorians feasted to excess on the newly emerging trend for breakfast, lunch and tea. Public dining became de rigeur, and, like the outdoor pique-nique’, introduced both controversy and a new way of eating. Victorians also struggled against many of these trends, with the belief that the control and denial of food were akin to healthy moral values. This was the era of cooking, educating and training in food management, combined with the old world of superstition and tradition, that changed British society forever.

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A brilliant look back into not only the food, but the whole way of life of that era. I was hooked from the first page. (Martin Caws, Group Executive Chef of the Casual Dining Group) --Martin Caws

L'autore

Emma Kay is a historian and writer. She has worked as a museum professional for over fifteen years in major institutions such as the National Maritime Museum, the British Museum and the University of Bath. She has a degree in History, postgraduate certificate in Roman Archaeology, MA in Heritage Interpretation and a diploma in Cultural Heritage Management. She is a private collector of antique and vintage kitchenalia and writes and speaks about the history of cooking and dining to a variety of audiences. Emma founded the Museum of Kitchenalia in 2012 (www.museumofkitchenalia.co.uk). She lives in the Cotswolds with her husband and young son.

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• Editore: Amberley Pub Plc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1445646544
• ISBN 13: 9781445646541
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256