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Irish food history : a companion / edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman.

Contributor(s): Mac Con Iomaire, Máirtín [editor] | Cashman, Dorothy [editor] | Royal Irish Academy [publisher].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Royal Irish Academy, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 795 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps, charts ; 25 cm.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781802050189 (hardback); 1802050183 (hardback).Subject(s): Food -- Ireland -- History | Food habits -- Ireland -- History | Food supply -- Ireland -- History | Cooking, Irish -- HistoryDDC classification: 394.1209415
Contents:
Section 1: Prehistory and archaeology of food in Ireland -- Section 2: Bog butter, bees and banqueting in medieval Ireland -- Section 3: Sources for food history in early modern Ireland -- Section 4: Developments in food supply, technology, and trade -- Section 5: Food, folklore, focloiri, and digital humanities -- Section 6: The development of modern Irish food and identity.
Subject: "Beginning at the end of the Ice age, before reindeer, brown bears, and the giant Irish deer became extinct; this vital and brilliantly researched collection brings us forward from the introduction of farming and livestock, to the delicious world of medieval honey, banqueting, bog butter, whiskey distilling, to eighteenth century feasts, famines, and on to the modernisation, industrialisation, and eventual globalisation of food. Through analysis, storytelling, and mouth-watering descriptions, every dish and moment in time reveals ancient techniques, hidden gems, and innovative cooking seemingly far beyond its time, all of which have shaped Ireland's culinary landscape for centuries." -- Provided by the publisher.
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Enlightening, entertaining and often surprising, Irish Food History: a companion takes you on an unforgettable and expert journey through Ireland's culinary past.Beginning at the end of the Ice age, before reindeer, brown bears, and the giant Irish deer became extinct; this vital and brilliantly researched collection brings us forward from the introduction of farming and livestock, to the delicious world of medieval honey, banqueting, bog butter, whiskey distilling, to eighteenth century feasts, famines, and on to the modernisation, industrialisation, and eventual globalisation of food. Through analysis, storytelling, and mouth-watering descriptions, every dish and moment in time reveals ancient techniques, hidden gems, and innovative cooking seemingly far beyond its time, all of which have shaped Ireland's culinary landscape for centuries. Irish Food History: a companion brings the reader on a gastronomic odyssey from earliest times and the start of the hunter-gatherer community, all the way to the abundant world of modern Irish cooking, safe in the hands of the world's most highly regarded food historians.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: Prehistory and archaeology of food in Ireland -- Section 2: Bog butter, bees and banqueting in medieval Ireland -- Section 3: Sources for food history in early modern Ireland -- Section 4: Developments in food supply, technology, and trade -- Section 5: Food, folklore, focloiri, and digital humanities -- Section 6: The development of modern Irish food and identity.

"Beginning at the end of the Ice age, before reindeer, brown bears, and the giant Irish deer became extinct; this vital and brilliantly researched collection brings us forward from the introduction of farming and livestock, to the delicious world of medieval honey, banqueting, bog butter, whiskey distilling, to eighteenth century feasts, famines, and on to the modernisation, industrialisation, and eventual globalisation of food. Through analysis, storytelling, and mouth-watering descriptions, every dish and moment in time reveals ancient techniques, hidden gems, and innovative cooking seemingly far beyond its time, all of which have shaped Ireland's culinary landscape for centuries." -- Provided by the publisher.

Chiefly in English with some Irish text.