| Description |
246 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
At an Assyrian table in the Middle East / Michael Abdalla -- 'All sugar from the waves': the changing concept of sugar / Joan P. Alcock -- The Lord Mayor's cake / Joan P. Alcock -- Undating Marinetti: a futurist banquet in the 1990s / Rose Arnold -- Decorating pastries and confections with gold / Carole Bloom -- Cream in your coffee - look or feel? / David Booth -- Suspect salep / Holly Chase -- The noodles of Samarkhand - engineering pasta / Robert Chenciner -- The thirteen layers of the heavens, and other Maya ritual breads / Sophie Coe -- Caviar - who sets the tone? / Silvija Davidson -- Foretelling the future? / Dorothy Duncan -- A town bejewelled: Philippine food art / Doreen G. Fernandez -- Too pretty to eat! Appearance and texture in Japanese food / Richard Hosking -- Wrapped Thai food / Philip Iddison -- Foods of another colour / Mary Wallace Kelsey -- The table, shared pleasures, mixed senses, sensor y capture and short circuits / Max Lake -- Vegetable wraps in traditional Latin American food: a natural look / Jose Rafael Lovera -- Kitsch culinary icons: the cultural roots of changes in nineteenth-century dinner cuisines / Valerie Mars -- The wafer and its roots / Janny de Moor -- Deciphering culinary allusion and illusion in Robert May's 'extraordinary pye' / S.M. Pennell -- |
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Tenth-century Arab food in poetry / Charles Perry -- Looking, hearing, and feeling through our palates / Alberto Portugheis -- Ukrainian-Canadian breads: shape, symbolism and spiritualty / Jo Marie Powers -- Futurist food, illuminating the darker side of futurist cooking and its multi-sensual aesthetic / Giles Prince -- Bread shapes in Finland / Jaakko Rahola -- White food / Gillian Riley -- Organoleptic deconstruction in three movements / Alicia Rios -- Aspects of visual art in the gastronomy of fifteenth-century France / Brenda S. Rose -- Chinese cuisine: a harmony of colours, scents, tastes and shapes / Françoise Sabban -- Silk kebab and pink tea / Helen J. Saberi -- The triumph of sugar sculpture in Italy, 1500-1700 / June di Schino -- A personal view of looking at and feeling Persian food / Margaret Shaida -- Precious metals on food / Roy Shipperbottom -- Semi-solid state physics: a feel for ice cream / Raymond Sokolov -- From rags to riches, potato flour and non-milled starches / Layinka M. Swinburne -- The opuntia: a food for the future / Martha B. Taylor -- Fish heads of Ancient Greece / John Wilkins and Shaun Hill |
| Analysis |
Food |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Congresses.
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Food texture -- Congresses.
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Food -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Walker, Harlan.
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| ISBN |
0907325564 (paperback) |
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