Royal taste : food, power and status at the European courts after 1789 / edited by Daniëlle de Vooght.

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011], ©2011.

xi, 231 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The historical models of food and power in European courts of the nineteenth century : an expository essay and prologue / Kenneth Albala -- A culinary captatio benevolentiae : the use of the truffle as a promotional gift by the Savoy dynasty in the eighteenth century / Rengenier Rittersma -- Drinking for approval : wine and the British court from George III to Victoria and Albert / Charles C. Ludington -- Food at the Russian court and the homes of the imperial Russian elite, sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries / David I. Burrow -- Pilaf and bouchées : the modernization of official banquets at the Ottoman palace in the nineteenth century / Özge Samanci -- The ceremony of dining at Napoléon III's court between 1852 and 1870 / Anne Lair -- Culinary networks of power in a nineteenth century court society : dining with the kings of the Belgians (1831-1909) / Daniëlle De Vooght.