Dining on turtles : food feasts and drinking in history / edited by Diane Kirkby and Tanja Luckins.

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

xi, 207 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Includes index.

Of turtles, dining and the importance of history in food, food in history / Diane E. Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Barbara Santich -- Banquets in ancient Rome : participation, presentation and perception / Beryl Rawson -- Food and feasts as propaganda in late renaissance Italy / Ken Albala -- Feasting on national identity : whisky, haggis and celebrations of scottishness in the nineteenth century / Alex Tyrrell, Patricia Hill and Diane Kirkby -- Moose nose and buffalo hump : food exchange in the British North American fur trade, 1780-1840 / George Colpitts -- Competing for cultural honours : cosmopolitanism, food, drink and the Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956 / Tanja Luckins -- Cider, oysters and tavern sociability : ritual, violence and young men in early modern rural France / John Cashmere -- The reform of popular drinking in late medieval and early modern Europe / A. Lynn Martin -- Beer, women and grub : pubs, food and the industrial working class / Diane E. Kirkby -- Community cookbooks, women and the "building of civil society", Australia, 1900-38 / Sarah Black -- Remembering Cyprus : "traditional" cooking and food preparation in the memories of Greek Cypriot emigrants / Tina Kalivas -- Just sugar : food and landscape along Queensland's sunshine coast / Chris McConville.