more of that dog imagery, eh? the food stuff is so much fun. there's a lot of material out there, archaeologically, about the differences of upper and lower class foodways. historically, it's mostly upper class discussion. and after having tried to put together a decent bibliography on the subject for my dissertation, i find the historic materials to be very disappointing. a lot of them are, um, silly. while i was specifically looking for american stuff, i did expand to the atlantic world a bit. i might be able to pull up some things, or at least suggest where to go. for certain, i have a couple articles and know of some decent books on food and naval ships. i've also got some interesting stuff on coffee and coffeehouses. bush/hornblower eating habits are v. interesting, but i keep trying to tell myself that forester wrote it and may not have been that well read in early 19th century eating habits so i shouldn't go all anthropological on its ass. however, it's still massive fun!
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Re: OMG it's another diatribe *tells self to STFU*
Date: 2006-02-15 07:04 pm (UTC)the food stuff is so much fun. there's a lot of material out there, archaeologically, about the differences of upper and lower class foodways. historically, it's mostly upper class discussion. and after having tried to put together a decent bibliography on the subject for my dissertation, i find the historic materials to be very disappointing. a lot of them are, um, silly. while i was specifically looking for american stuff, i did expand to the atlantic world a bit. i might be able to pull up some things, or at least suggest where to go. for certain, i have a couple articles and know of some decent books on food and naval ships. i've also got some interesting stuff on coffee and coffeehouses.
bush/hornblower eating habits are v. interesting, but i keep trying to tell myself that forester wrote it and may not have been that well read in early 19th century eating habits so i shouldn't go all anthropological on its ass. however, it's still massive fun!