05106nam 2200793 a 450 991078868150332120220316211555.01-283-89907-80-8122-0715-710.9783/9780812207156(CKB)3240000000065398(OCoLC)822017764(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642207(SSID)ssj0000713595(PQKBManifestationID)11420934(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713595(PQKBWorkID)10659060(PQKB)11131150(MdBmJHUP)muse17648(DE-B1597)449592(OCoLC)979741270(DE-B1597)9780812207156(Au-PeEL)EBL3441872(CaPaEBR)ebr10642207(CaONFJC)MIL421157(MiAaPQ)EBC3441872(EXLCZ)99324000000006539820111109d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPolitical gastronomy[electronic resource] food and authority in the English Atlantic world /Michael A. LaCombe1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20121 online resource (235 p.)Early American StudiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4418-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-215) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. "Commutative Goodnesse": Food and Leadership --Chapter 2. "Art of Authority": Hunger, Plenty, and the Common Stores --Chapter 3. "By Shewing Power Purchasing Authoritie": Gender, Status, and Food Exchanges --Chapter 4. "Would Rather Want Then Borrow, or Starve Then Not Pay": Refiguring English Dependency --Chapter 5. "A Continuall and Dayly Table for Gentlemen of Fashion": Eating Like a Governor --Chapter 6. "To Manifest the Greater State": English and Indians at Table --Conclusion: "When Flesh Was Food": Reimagining the Early Period after 1660 --Notes --Index --Acknowledgments"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is decided at a banquet."-Jean Anthèlme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy The first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 was a powerfully symbolic event and not merely the pageant of abundance that we still reenact today. In these early encounters between Indians and English in North America, food was also symbolic of power: the venison brought to Plymouth by the Indians, for example, was resonant of both masculine skill with weapons and the status of the men who offered it. These meanings were clearly understood by Plymouth's leaders, however weak they appeared in comparison. Political Gastronomy examines the meaning of food in its many facets: planting, gathering, hunting, cooking, shared meals, and the daily labor that sustained ordinary households. Public occasions such as the first Thanksgiving could be used to reinforce claims to status and precedence, but even seemingly trivial gestures could dramatize the tense negotiations of status and authority: an offer of roast squirrel or a spoonful of beer, a guest's refusal to accept his place at the table, the presence and type of utensils, whether hands should be washed or napkins used. Historian Michael A. LaCombe places Anglo-Indian encounters at the center of his study, and his wide-ranging research shows that despite their many differences in language, culture, and beliefs, English settlers and American Indians were able to communicate reciprocally in the symbolic language of food.Early American studiesFoodPolitical aspectsNorth AmericaHistoryColonistsNorth AmericaAttitudesIndians of North AmericaFoodPolitical aspectsIndians of North AmericaFirst contact with other peoplesNorth AmericaHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775Great BritainColoniesAmericaHistory17th centuryGreat BritainColoniesAmericaSocial conditionsAmerican History.American Studies.European History.History.World History.FoodPolitical aspectsHistory.ColonistsAttitudes.Indians of North AmericaFoodPolitical aspects.Indians of North AmericaFirst contact with other peoples.973.2LaCombe Michael A1496293MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788681503321Political gastronomy3720890UNINA