Royal taste food, power and status at the European courts after 1789 /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Vooght, Daniθelle de.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10456125
Table of Contents:
  • 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 bouchβees : the modernization of official banquets at the Ottoman palace in the nineteenth century / θOzge Samanci
  • The ceremony of dining at Napolβeon 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) / Daniθelle De Vooght.