[Sca-cooks] _Feeding a City_

[Stefan li Rous]

Jadwiga replied to me with:
>> > _Feeding a City_ suggests that some home butchering was done by smaller
>> > urban households but that it was actively discouraged by the civil
>> > authorities.
>> Ooh. This book sounds like it could be interesting. Can you give us a more
>> complete desciption/synopsis and the bibliographic info on this book?
>
> Since you asked, Stefan...
>
> _Feeding a City: York; The provision of food from Roman times to the
> beginning of the twentieth century_. edite by Eileen White. (Based on
> papers from the 12th and 13th Leeds Symposia on Food History, 1997 and
> 1998; series: Food & Society, vol. 10) (Prospect Books, 2000)
>
> Table of contents (with my notes):
>
> Foreword, C. Anne Wilson

Both the Leeds Symposia and C. Anne Wilson are good reasons to purchase this
book, even without the rest of this stuff. Although it looks like only the
introduction is by C. Anne Wilson.


> Introduction, Eileen White, Allan Hall, Terry O'Connor
>
> 1. A brief history of plant foods in the city of York: what the cesspits
> tell us, Allan Hall
<snip>
> the last chapters are all postperiod:
> 8. York and the Gentry: The York Season and the Country House, Peter
> Brears
> 9. Continuity and Change, Eileen White
> 10. rebirth and Growth, Nineteenth Century York, Hugh Murray
> 11. Poverty and Policy: the Rowntree Study of 1899, Laura Mason
> 12. The emergence of the confectionary industry in York, Bill Taylor
> 13. Cooks and their Books: Four York Manuscripts, Ann Rycraft
> 14. York Ham and other 'Regional' Foods, Laura Mason

Lots of info centering on York! This is wonderful. Since Stefan has
a manor in York Shire this might yield some useful info to finally fill out
some of his persona!

Thanks for the additional info!
Stefan

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