Royal taste : food, power and status at the European courts after 1789 / edited by Daniëlle de Vooght.
Published / Created:
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Ashgate, c2011.Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Physical Description:
xi, 231p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-226) and index.
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 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.
Subject Terms:
Food habits -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. | Dinners and dining -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. | Courts and courtiers -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. | Political culture -- Europe -- History -- 19th century. | Europe -- History -- 1789–1900.