Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Author: Sian Griffiths
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1998
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781901341065

What people ate used to be considered marginal and insignificant. CONSUMING PASSIONS shows how that picture is changing. This collection of essays reveals that historians, sociologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, along with ordinary people, are seriously studying the relationship between what we eat and how we live, behave, and think. 20 illustrations.

Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Author: Merrall L. Price
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135886857

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0007172966

By the close of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution had brought with it not just factories, railways, mines and machines but also fashion, travel, leisure and pleasure. This book explores this revolution in science, technology and industry - and how a world of thrilling sensation and theatricality was born.

Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Author: Judith Williamson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1995
Genre:
ISBN:

Book on dynamics of popular culture.

Courtesans and Fishcakes

Courtesans and Fishcakes
Author: James N. Davidson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226137430

As any reader of the Symposium knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he reflected the culture of ancient Greece in which he lived, a culture of passions and pleasures, of food, drink, and sex before—and in concert with—politics and principles. Athenians, the richest and most powerful of the Greeks, were as skilled at consuming as their playwrights were at devising tragedies. Weaving together Greek texts, critical theory, and witty anecdotes, this compelling and accessible study teaches the reader a great deal, not only about the banquets and temptations of ancient Athens, but also about how to read Greek comedy and history.

Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Author: Michael Lee West
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-04-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0060984422

Consuming Passions is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous life centered around food and family—the story of how she went from non-cook to gourmet of words and victuals by watching a multitude of relatives squabble, prepare sumptuous repasts, and carry on honored traditions. Laced with delicious secret recipes passed from generation to generation, West's irresistible chronicle recalls good times and wild times—mothers swinging from chandeliers, elderly aunts brewing up love potions, a South American nymphomaniac stirring up trouble at a Louisiana barbeque joint, and the spooky hauntings of a cabbage-eating ghost—all in the pursuit of good dining. Thoroughly entertaining, alive with West's distinctive humor and sharp, irrepressible insight, here are incomparable American kitchen tales as warm and tasty as freshly baked bread.

Consuming Passion

Consuming Passion
Author: Ellen Mohr Catalano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Compulsive shopping
ISBN: 9781879237384

This book helps you discover why you shop. It exposes the hidden persuaders in catalogs and malls that trigger compulsive buying. Special chapters focus on staying within a budget and resisting temptations.

Governance of Cons Passion

Governance of Cons Passion
Author: A. Hunt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1996-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0333984390

This book explores the sumptuary laws that regulated conspicuous consumption in respect to dress, ornaments, and food that were widespread in late medieval and early modern Europe. It argues that sumptuary laws were attempts to stabilize social recognizability in the urban `world of strangers' and in the governance of cities. The gendered character of sumptuary laws are viewed as components of 'gender wars'. These laws are explored as projects directed at the reform of popular culture and in their links to the governance of vagrancy and of popular recreation. This study challenges the view that the sumptuary actually died and develops an argument that in the modern world the regulation of consumption persists, but becomes dispersed throughout a range of both public and private forms of governance. The conclusions stresses the persistence of projects of governance of personal appearance and of private consumption.

Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions
Author: Dawn M. Hadley
Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

This multidisciplinary book explores the social practice of dining over 2000 years, examining the archaeological, documentary, material culture, and art historical evidence for the consumption of food and drink in various historical, social, and cultural contexts. The authors look at the locations for dining and the concomitant decoration, furniture, and tableware. They explore the norms for appropriate and inappropriate behavior and the rituals of dining, such as food preparation and presentation, the serving of food, and its means of consumption.