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The Gastro-Topography and Built Heritage of Dublin, Ireland

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

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Food and Architecture : At the Table

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Book chapter

...The word ‘topography’ derives from the Greek topos (place) and graphia (to write), and in Classical literature it was used to describe writing about a place or local history. This chapter discusses how place names can enlighten our...

Potato mother

Rebecca Earle

Rebecca Earle is Professor in History at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of three books, including The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (2012), which was Winner of the Conference on Latin America History 2013 Bolton-Johnson Prize, and The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (2008), which was Winner of the Conference on Latin American History's 2008 Bolton-Johnson Prize Honorable Mention. She has written about the history of food for The Conversation, BBC History Magazine, The Independent, and The Sunday Telegraph, among other publications. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Potato

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Omphalos ‘Those times when we grew gold, pure gold ...’Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, ‘Potatoes and Knowledge’, in An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance, ed. Mark Hobart (London: Routledge, 1993), 221. All 4,500...

The All-Consuming House: Food and Architecture in Molly Keane’s Time after Time

Kevin Donovan

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Food and Architecture : At the Table

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...‘Big House’ literature The ‘Big House’ has long been a term used colloquially in Ireland to refer to the homes of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, who, being descended from an older Protestant ruling...

Mosaic Food Rules in Celtic Spirituality in Ireland

David Grumett

Dr David Grumett is Research Fellow in Theology in the University of Exeter, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Eating and Believing : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology

A Continuum, 2008

Book chapter

...It is typically assumed, and sometimes even argued, that the detailed food regulations which feature prominently in the Hebrew Bible were, in the early Christian churches, superseded. They were rendered obsolete, so the argument goes...

Ireland

Máirtín MacCon Iomaire

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 4 : Europe

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

Encyclopedia entry

...Overview Ireland is the most westerly country in Europe and part of the British Isles. For many centuries, the British Crown has exercised dominion over parts of the island and at times the whole...

The Politics of Food: Hunger

Nicola Humble

Nicola Humble is Professor of English at the University of Roehampton, UK. She is the author of award winning title Culinary Pleasures and Cake: A Global History, and also edited a widely cited edition of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Literature of Food : An Introduction from 1830 to Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Book chapter

...The politics of food is a huge and multi-faceted topic, embracing questions of how food is produced, allocated, distributed and consumed locally, nationally and globally. It includes issues as diverse as state food control and subsidies...