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The Food Adventurers Daniel E. Bender

The Food Adventurers By Daniel E. Bender

The Food Adventurers by Daniel E. Bender


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Summary

Narrates the history of eating on around-the-world adventures.

The Food Adventurers Summary

The Food Adventurers: How Round-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat by Daniel E. Bender

From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise-liner's luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the around-the-world adventure. The book looks at what tourists ate on these adventures, as well as what they avoided, and what kinds of meals they described in diaries, photographs and postcards. Daniel E. Bender shows how circumglobal travel shaped popular fascination with world cuisines, and leads readers on a culinary tour from Tahitian roast pig in the 1840s, to the dining saloon of the luxury Cunard steamer Franconia in the 1920s, to InterContinental and Hilton hotel restaurants in the 1960s and '70s.

The Food Adventurers Reviews

'Finally, someone has written a book about the hypocrisy (or maybe just ambiguity) of gastro-tourism and how it has been marketed. But who knew this story could be presented as funny and ironic? From the colonial Dutch East Indies rijsttafel to Anthony Bourdain, Bender traces the nearly two-hundred-year history of the tug-of-war between tourists' professed desire for authenticity and their need for comfort and familiarity.' - Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University, and author of American Cuisine

About Daniel E. Bender

Daniel E. Bender is the Canada Research Chair in Food and Culture and a professor of food studies and history at the University of Toronto. Bender is the author or editor of many books including Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines (2023).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Eating Apart Part I: From Sail to Steam, 1840-1900 Chapter 1: Ida Pfeiffer Chapter 2: Comte de Beauvoir Part II: The Golden Age of Steam, 1900-1945 Itinerary: SS Cleveland Chapter 3: Water Chapter 4: Harry Franck Chapter 5: Durian Chapter 6: Edith James Chapter 7: Mangosteen Chapter 8: Juanita Harrison Chapter 9: The Rice Table Part III: Aeroplanes and the Age of Mass Tourism, 1945-75 Itinerary: Pan Am Chapter 10: Myra Waldo Chapter 11: InterContinental Chapter 12: Hilton and Trader Vic Conclusion References Further Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

Additional information

GOR013310885
9781789147575
1789147573
The Food Adventurers: How Round-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat by Daniel E. Bender
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Reaktion Books
2023-07-01
336
N/A
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