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The food adventurers : how around-the-world travel changed the way we eat / Daniel E. Bender.

Summary:

From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise liner's luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the around-the-world adventure. This book looks at what tourists ate on these adventures, as well as what they avoided, and what kinds of meals they described in diaries, photographs and postcards. Daniel E. Bender shows how circumglobal travel shaped popular fascination with world cuisines, and leads readers on a culinary tour from Tahitian roast pig in the 1840s, to the dining saloon of the luxury Cunard steamer Franconia in the 1920s, to InterContinental and Hilton hotel restaurants in the 1960s and '70s.

Record details

ISBN: 9781789147575
ISBN: 1789147573
Physical Description: 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Eating apart -- Part I: From sail to steam, 1840-1900 -- 1. IDA Pfeiffer -- 2. The Comte de Beauvoir -- Part II: The golden age of steam, 1900-1945. Itinerary : ss Cleveland -- 3. Water -- 4. Harry Franck -- 5. Durian -- 6. Edith James -- 7. Mangosteen -- 8. Juanita Harrison -- 9. The rice table -- Part III: Aeroplanes and the age of mass tourism, 1945-1975. Itinerary: Pan Am -- 10. Myra Waldo -- 11. Intercontinental -- 12. Hilton and trader Vic's -- Conclusion.