HIST 840
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS
SOME HISTORIC MENUS
Week 13: Changing Tastes and Eating for Pleasure
Readings:
Margaret Visser, Much Depends on Dinner, pp. 285-322 (Chap. 9: “Ice Cream: Cold Comfort”)
Reay Tannahill, Food in History, pp. 281-346 (Part Six: Introduction; Chap. 19: “The Industrial Revolution;” Chap. 20: “The Food-Supply Revolution;” Chap. 21: “The Scientific Revolution”)
Frederick W. Mote, “Yüan [ AD 1271-1368] and Ming [AD 1368-1644],” in K. C. Chang, ed., Food in Chinese Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977), pp. 234-240.
Yunxiang Yan, “Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald’s in Beijing,” in The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: A Reader, ed. James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 86-103 (excerpt).
Videos:
Talleyrand, the Congress of Vienna (1815), and Carême’s food, from “Glamour Puds” with Kate Williams and Eric Lanlard, (2009; 9:30 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2AYv-UQubg#aid=P9RO56_KY4Q
Michel Roux, Jr.: Carême’s pâtisserie (1:54 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuRV3AYBCS8
Antonin Carême’s “Glamour Puddings” (=brief selections from 24-min. video; 3:23 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93PL29QvJUI
Fast food reigns in China (CNN news report, c. July 2009; 2:07 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaBdRIuuUTI&feature=related
MacDonalds “Manly Man Beef” commercial, Beijing, 2012 (0:30 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABsQTR25K14
“The Perfect Ice Cream Flavor” (salted caramel ice cream; 2:05 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B06VWEWqkwE
Erotic ad for Creme d’Or vanille bourbon ice cream: “Worth a sin” (0:40 min.):