Food and the City in Europe since 1800

By: Peter Lummel, Peter J. Atkins (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 June 2007

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There has been a rapid urbanisation throughout Western Europe since the Eighteenth Century. Bringing together studies from across the continent, this edited volume looks at the impact this urbanisation has had upon diets and food systems over the past 200 years. It stresses the fundamental links between food systems, food cultures and food politics on one hand and the key changes in European social history in the other. It responds to key questions such as: when and how did local food production cease to be able to provide for the city and when did improved transport conditions and liberal commercial relations replace local by supra-regional food supplies? How far did the food industry contribute to improved living conditions in cities? What influence did urban consumers have? It also examines issues of food hygiene and health impacts in cities, looks at various food innovations and how 'new' foods often gained acceptance first in cities, and explores how eating fashions have changed over the centuries.

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'Food history and urban studies are the hottest topics in Europe today: this book combines both. Big cities - London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Prague and other urban magnets in the last two centuries - are huge, hungry bellies. Volume, modernity, risks. Fusion, fraud, flavour and fashion. It is all on the menu of this rich, diverse and well-balanced book.' Marc Jacobs, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium 'Food and the City reinforces the idea present in recent studies of eating habits that food should no longer just be seen as offering insights into consumption patterns and that food is rich with social and cultural meanings.' Social History of Medicine 'This collection provides not only some extremely interesting studies of the difficulties in feeding cities well, but a fascinating glimpse of the roots of problems with which we still grapple.' Agricultural History Review

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Preface
Food and the city
Feeding the Multitude
Urbanization and nutrition, historical research reconsidered, Hans Jurgen Teuteberg
'A tale of 2 cities': a comparison of food supply in London and Paris in the 1850s
Urbanization and dietary change in Mediterranean Europe, Barcelona, 1870-1935
Food science/food politics: Max Rubner and 'rational nutrition' in fin-de-siecle Berlin
How to feed 3 million inhabitants: Berlin in the first years after the Second World war, 1945-1948
Food Regulation
Food fraud and the big city: Brussels' responses to food anxieties in the 19th century
Food quality in London and the rise of the public analyst, 1870-1939
Municipal laboratories and the analysis of foodstuffs in France under the Third Republic: a case study of the Paris municipal laboratory, 1878-1907
The 'war against food adulteration': municipal food monitoring and citizen self-help associations in Germany, 1870s-1880s
Food Innovations the Product Perspective
The discovery of vitamins and its impact on the food industry: the issue of tinned sweetened condensed skim milk 1890-1940
First-class restaurants and luxury food stores: the emergence of the Soviet culture of consumption in the 1930s
A shop window of the regime: the position of Prague as the capital in the preferential supply system of selected Czechoslovakian cities, 1950-1970
Born-in-the-city: the supermarket in Germany
The changing position of exotic foods in post-war Amsterdam
The immigrant impact upon London's food since c.1850
Eating Fashions: the Consumer Perspective
Scientists at the table: the cultural significance of scientists' festive meals in Berlin, 1830-1940
Reforming diet at the end of the 19th century in Europe
Turtle soup and water porridge: some social and cultural perspectives on food habits in the city of Oslo, 1860-2000
Food markets in the city of Bordeaux - from the 1960s until today: historical evolution and anthropological aspects
Conclusion
Index
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