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From: Jesse Cromwell [mailto:jesse_cromwell@hotmail.com]
List Editor: "Nancy L. Hagedorn" <H-Atlantic.Editor@FREDONIA.EDU>
Editor's Subject: REPLY: Course: Food and History
Author's Subject: REPLY: Course: Food and History
Date Written: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:30 PM
Date Posted: Thu, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:50 -0500



Hello Foodies,


Marcy Norton's recent book Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of
Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World.  Ithaca: Cornell University
Press, 2008 examines the sacred and social New World origins of these
two commodities and then looks at the ways their consumption was
modified and commercialized by multiple European empires.  It is a
thoroughly researched and cleanly written book.  Individual chapters
would serve undergraduates well.


As a guilty pleasure of food, film, and nationality, I would recommend
"Babette's Feast", the 1987 Danish Film that won Best Foreign Film at
the Academy Awards.


Best,

Jesse Cromwell

Ph.D. Candidate

The University of Texas at Austin

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Sciences Online