Table of Contents
Foreword Mark McWilliams 9
The Celebratory and the Everyday: Guinea Pigs, Hamburgers and the Performance of Food Heritage in Highland Ecuador Emma-Jayne Abbots 13
Celebrating Solitude: M.F.K. Fisher on Dining Alone Robert Appelbaum 23
Celebration and Japanese Food Kimiko Barber 31
Transylvanian Lambs and Easter Tables: Celebrations in Danger of Extinction Rosemary Barron Kate Hawkings 37
It Was Divine … Gods and their Food in the Ancient Greek World Kim Beerden 49
Sukkot: The Paradigmatic Harvest Festival Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus 56
Chi vuol godere la festa, digiuni la vigilia: On the Relationship between Fasting and Feasting Anthony F. Buccini 66
A History of the Wassail Bowl: From Pagan Brew to Christian Custard Joanna Crosby 76
Celebrating Hellenism far from Hellas: Feasts and Festivals of Ptolemy II of Egypt Andrew Dalby 86
The 'Floating Feasts' of Ancient Rome John F. Donahue 95
The Great Aussie Barbecue Len Fisher 105
Celebrating Christmas and New Year with Punch Elizabeth Gabay 112
Long Life to You! Drinking and Celebrating in Ancient Rome in the Festival of Anna Perenna Christopher Grocock 123
Celebrating with Altamiras: The Spirit of Fiesta Food Vicky Hayward 133
Buttering Up the Sun: Russian Maslenitsa from Pagan Practice to Contemporary Celebration Sharon Hudgins 141
Celebrating with Sweets in Ottoman Turkey Priscilla Mary Isin 151
Royal Pomp: Viceregal Celebrations and Hospitality in Georgian Dublin Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Tara Kellaghan 163
The Unavoidable Ham Biscuit Mark McWilliams 174
North and South: Two Banquets Given to Promote the Great 1851 Exhibition Valerie Mars 184
Dining with the Drapers: The Drapers' Company 1564 Election Day Feast as a Map of Elizabethan London Sarah Ann Milne 199
Feast for a King: The Wine and Food Society's Carême Banquet at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Joan Navarre 209
Keeping Kosher: Cause for Celebration? Felicity Newman 217
The Midwinter Celebration in Antarctica: Feeding Body and Soul Diana Noyce 228
The Bull's Head Breakfast in Old Los Angeles Charles Perry 242
Underground Restaurants - A New Way to Celebrate with Strangers Heike Pethe Sabine Cikic 248
On Mfúúmbu, Nkasa, and Whisky: A Wedding Celebration in Kimbonga-Louamba (Congo-Brazzaville) Birgit Ricquier 258
Tableware and Taste: Ceramic Production and the Presentation of Banquet Food Gillian Riley 267
Porrablót - Icelandic Feasting Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir Michael R. Leaman 277
Celebrating Life in Multicultural Rotterdam: A Visual Approach Linda Roodenburg 284
M.F.K. Fisher, W.H. Auden, and Thanksgiving for a Habitat Seth Rosenbaum 297
Cake: The Centrepiece of Celebrations Marietta Rusinek 308
Celebrating Purim and Passover: Food and Memory in the Creation of Jewish Identity Georg Schäfer Susan Weingarten 316
Prints Charming: Nineteenth-Century New York Cake Boards and New Year's Cake Kimberly Sorensen 326
The Festive Fruit: A History of Figs David C. Sutton 335
Be Merry, Around a Wheat Berry! The Significance of Wheat in Anatolian Rituals and Celebrations Aylin Öney Tan 346
The Rise of Taste and the Rhetoric of Celebration Viktoria von Hoffmann 356
Celebrations and the Torrid Pleasures of an Ice-Cream and Sorbet Tree in Rome in August 1714 Robin Weir 364
The Origins of the Celebration of St Cosmas and St Damian in Rio de Janeiro Marcia Zoladz 373
