From whiskey to famine: food and intercultural encounters in Irish history
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| Publication date | 2006 |
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| Book title | Food, Drink and Identity in Europe |
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| Series | European studies |
| Pages (from-to) | 49-61 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam: Rodopi |
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| Abstract | Food provision and diet belong to the fundamental cultural patterns that mark a society, and are often foregrounded as salient experiences in intercultural encounters. This is also the case in one of the most long-standing intercultural confrontations in European history: that between Ireland and England. Some discursive thematizations of Irish diet (whisky, dairy, potatoes, famine) are traced in this article, both in their historical context and in their rhetorical function. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401203494_005 |
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