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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"food history"”.
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Food in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia: a method for studying historical cuisines
Preface: Knowing how people eat-their foods, preparation styles, and dining customs-helps us understand style of food preparation, a cuisine profile of a culture, the physical how they live. Not merely a is the culinary and gastronomic and behavioral expression of a culture's social and aesthetic …
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Neural Mechanisms that Control an Innate Foraging Behavior in Caenorhabditis Elegans
<p>The ability to efficiently locate food is critical for survival. Thus, animals modify their foraging patterns based on recent experience and current conditions to increase their likelihood of finding food. One highly conserved foraging strategy is local search, an intensive exploration over …
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Feasts of Change: Food and History in the Cook Islands, 1825-1975
… explores the central and transformative role of food in the history of the Cook Islands between 1825 and 1975. Food had long been fundamental in the Cook Islands in matters of economy, community, and status, and quickly became a crucial component of cultural contact with Westerners. Decisions …
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
This thesis examines changing social attitudes to food and body weight in England in the period 1954 to 1990. It draws on ‘food-themed’ life history interviews with thirty men and women, together with Mass Observation directives and sociological surveys, to highlight the value of integrating …
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Australian stories of coffee in Melbourne and environs: a selective cultural history
… custom of tea. This project is located in food and social history and focuses particularly on the introduction of espresso coffee to Melbourne in the 1950s and '60s, as in my view the Italian cafes of that period had the greatest influence upon present cafe culture. However, this project is …
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'Tried and Tested’: community cookbooks in Australia, 1890-1980
… not only of the evolution of Australian food culture, but of twentieth-century discourses of identity. Community cookbooks express the voices of "ordinary people" in everyday life, in particular the large cohort of mostly middle-class twentieth-century women who recognised the community …
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The relationship of parent and child food choices: influences of a supermarket intervention
… influences of a supermarket intervention on the food choices of parents and their children. Twenty-four families (11 experimental; 13 control) participated in this study. They used the NLS weekly when they completed their major shopping. The NLS was a public access, interactive information system …
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Global Competency in Hospitality Management Programs: A Perfect Recipe for Community Colleges
… Convention Management, Travel and Tourism, and Food Service Operations. Such disciplines can touch on international components that involve business, politics, culture, food, history, religion, education, art, music, and travel. Therefore, community college hospitality management programs may be …
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Consuming Trade in Mid-Eighteenth Century Albany
… and society became crystallized around its food items and their trade, much as the coastal communities commonly studied. Due to the emphasis placed on it by Albanians, food and its trade became the culturally, socially, and economically homogenizing factor that began shaping the modern city …
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The politics of the table: Nutrition and the telescopic body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935
… drinkers) from the level of the international food trade all the way down to the vitamins that nourished their cells. It combined a positivist belief in the ability of medicine to heal social ills with a tendency across the political spectrum to describe the nation as an organic whole. It also …
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The chapel and the chamber: ceremonial dining and religious ritual at the court of King Charles I
… also charting the complex system of provisioning food for the royal household. This chapter illuminates how these ceremonies revived older modes of ritual kingship and aided the king in presenting a particular vision of his rule that was characterized by the conflation of the secular and the …
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MENSE AZIENDALI E ALIMENTAZIONE DEI LAVORATORI IN LOMBARDIA. RELAZIONI INDUSTRIALI, SCIENZA DELLA NUTRIZIONE, EVOLUZIONE DEI MODELLI DI CONSUMO (1945-1980)
La ricerca si propone di analizzare il rapporto alimentazione-lavoro, ponendo al centro della propria indagine i sistemi di ristorazione destinati alle lavoratrici e ai lavoratori del settore industriale. Sviluppatesi durante il secondo conflitto mondiale, nei decenni successivi le mense aziendali …
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Entramados históricos de las mezclas vegetales y la bienestarina, un acercamiento a las intervenciones técnico políticas en nutrición 1950-1970
Este trabajo busca analizar y explorar la configuración histórica de las mezclas vegetales y el nacimiento de la Bienestarina enmarcada en la concepción del problema de la desnutrición infantil, las estrategias de intervención nutricional y la puesta en marcha de políticas nutricionales y …
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Industrial Health Foods and Culture during Britain’s Era of Anxiety and Fatigue (1870-1918)
This thesis explores how and why Health Foods – novel industrial foods that purportedly made more-or-less healthy adults healthier – became popular and culturally significant in Britain at the *fin de siècle*. I focus on several of the most advertised and, by implication, popular Health Foods, …