طعم سلطنتی: غذا، قدرت و وضعیت در دربارهای اروپایی پس از ۱۷۸۹

The explicit association between food and status was, academically speaking, first acknowledged on the food production level. He who owned the land, possessed the grain, he who owned the mill, had the flour, he who owned the oven, sold the bread. However, this conceptualization of power is dual; next to the obvious demonstration of power on the production level is the social significance of food consumption. Consumption of rich food”in terms of quantity and quality ”was, and is, a means to show one's social status and to create or uphold power. This book is concerned with the relationship between food consumption, status and power. Contributors address the 'old top' of society, and consider the way kings and queens, emperors and dukes, nobles and aristocrats wined and dined in the rapidly changing world of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where the bourgeoisie and even the 'common people' obtained political rights, economic influence, social importance and cultural authority. The book questions the role of food consumption at courts and the significance of particular foodstuffs or ways of cooking, deals with the number of guests and their place at the table, and studies the way the courts under consideration influenced one another. Topics include the role of sherry at the court of Queen Victoria as a means of representing middle class values, the use of the truffle as a promotional gift at the Savoy court, and the influence of European culture on banqueting at the Ottoman Palace. Together the volume addresses issues of social networks, prestige, politics and diplomacy, banquets and their design, income and spending, economic aims, taste and preference, cultural innovations, social hierarchies, material culture, and many more social and cultural issues. It will provide a useful entry into food history for scholars of court culture and anyone with an interest in modern cultural history. The Historical Models Of Food And Power In European Courts Of The Nineteenth Century : An Expository Essay And Prologue / Kenneth Albala -- A Culinary Captatio Benevolentiae : The Use Of The Truffle As A Promotional Gift By The Savoy Dynasty In The Eighteenth Century / Rengenier Rittersma -- Drinking For Approval : Wine And The British Court From George Iii To Victoria And Albert / Charles C. Ludington -- Food At The Russian Court And The Homes Of The Imperial Russian Elite, Sixteenth To Mid-nineteenth Centuries / David I. Burrow -- Pilaf And Bouchées : The Modernization Of Official Banquets At The Ottoman Palace In The Nineteenth Century / Özge Samanci -- The Ceremony Of Dining At Napoléon Iii's Court Between 1852 And 1870 / Anne Lair -- Culinary Networks Of Power In A Nineteenth Century Court Society : Dining With The Kings Of The Belgians (1831-1909) / Daniëlle De Vooght. Edited By Daniëlle De Vooght. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. CONTENTS 6 List of Figures and Tables 8 Notes on Contributors 10 Acknowledgments 14 Introduction. Food and Power: Studying Food at (Modern) Courts 16 1 The Historical Models of Food and Power in European Cours of the Nineteenth Centruy: An Expository Essay and Prologue 28 2 Culinary Captatio Benevolentiae: The Use of the Truffle as a Promotional Gift by the Savoy Dynasty in the Eighteenth Century 46 3 Drinking for Approval: Wine and the British Court from George III to Victoria and Albert 72 4 Food at the Russian Court and the Homes of the Imperial Russian Elite, Sixteenth to mid-Nineteenth Centuries 102 5 Pilaf and Bouchées: The Modernization of Official Banqueta at the Ottoman Palace in the Nineteenth Century 126 6 The Ceremony of Dining at Napoleon III's Court Between 1852 and 1870 158 7 Culinary Networks of Power in a Nineteenth-Century Court Society: Dining with the Kings of the Belgians (1831-1909) 186 Conclusion 206 Bibliography 216 The explicit association between food and status was, academically speaking, first acknowledged on the food production level. Consumption of rich food - in terms of quantity and quality - was, and is, a means to show one's social status and to create or uphold power. This book focuses on the relationship between food consumption, status and power.