Review Articles / Comptes rendus

Mohamed OUBAHLI, La main et le pétrin, alimentation céréalière et pratiques culinaires en Occident musulman au Moyen Âge (Casablanca, Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz, 2012) 590 pp., ISBN 9954036067.

Emma C. SPARY, Eating the Enlightenment: food and the sciences in Paris, 1670-1760 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012), ISBN 9780226768861. ; Sean TAKATS, The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 2011), ISBN 9781421402833.

Mónica P. MORALES, Reading Inebriation in Early Colonial Peru, New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies (Ashgate Publishing Group, Farnham, 2012), 156 pp., £ 60, ISBN 9781409443339.

Ina ZWEINIGER-BARGIELOWSKA, Rachel DUFFETT and Alain DROUARD (eds), Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe, (Ashgate, Farnham, 2011), 276 pp., 7 illus., £65.00, ISBN 9781409417705.

Review essay: ‘The most important thing in the world’: Food and the Second World War - Lizzie COLLINGHAM, The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food (Allen Lane, 2011), 656 pp., 15 illus., £30.00, ISBN 9780713999648. ; Paul BRASSLEY, Yves SEGERS and Leon VAN MOLLE (eds), War, Agriculture and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s (Routledge, 2012), 268 pp., 34 illus., £85.00, ISBN 9780415522168. ; Richard FARMER, The Food Companions: Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939-45, (Manchester UP, Studies in Popular Culture series, 2011), 229 pp., 29 illus., £60.00, ISBN 9780719083136.

Michael A. LaCombe, Political Gastronomy. Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 224 pp., 17 illus., ISBN 9780812244182.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Review
  • Pages 381-406
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102118

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/f3m5151848n3g332/

Back Matter („Upcoming issues / Prochains numéros“, „Bibliographie d’histoire de l’alimentation / Food history – A bibliographic database“, „Envois d’articles / Submission of Articles“)

Back Matter ("Upcoming issues / Prochains numéros", "Bibliographie d’histoire de l’alimentation / Food history – A bibliographic database", "Envois d'articles / Submission of Articles")

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 407-413

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/fu31n12924j63873/

From “Slaves of the Kitchen” to “Thanks to the Union”: Greek-American Hotel and Restaurant Workers during the Great Depression

This article explores the conditions of labour and the unionising activities of rank-and-file workers in hotels and restaurants during the Great Depression through the case of Greek-American culinary and service workers. More particularly it charts the correlation between class-oriented conceptualisations and the activities of the Greek-American Left, while it addresses the transformations of ethnicity within the boundaries of small ethnic enterprises. In this context, Greek-American workers do not represent an exceptional case, but offer a paradigm of the multiple ways ethnic organisation contributed to the development of labour unionism in the turbulent 1930s and the rise of a labour-capital regulation that substituted the preexisting chaotic conditions in the food industry.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 223-242
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102111
  • Authors
    • Kostis Karpozilos

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/u702v6534137613u/

Hiérarchies et rémunérations au sein de la grande hôtellerie parisienne aux alentours de 1900, l’exemple du Grand Hôtel

S’il est certain que l’hôtellerie de luxe et de demi-luxe atoujours suscité l’attention notamment pour rendre compte de l’exceptionnel qui s’y déroule, l’histoire sociale du “peuple hôtelier” reste largement à écrire. Ainsi, l’ambition de ce papier est de mettre en lumière les principales dynamiques de l’organisation du travail d’une entreprise hôtelière parisienne de grande envergure, et plus particulièrement du Grand Hôtel, à l’orée du xxe siècle. Pour mener à bien cette tâche, les questions de hiérarchie, de recrutement, de formation et de rémunérationdoivent être évoquées, soulignant, notamment, les difficiles conditions d’existence qu’un grand nombre de petites mains œuvrant au cœur des palaces parisiens. Sous tous ces angles, la Première Guerre mondiale marque une césure importante de l’histoire du peuple hôtelier à Paris en suscitant de nombreux débats, en encourageant le développement de la formation et en chassant des palaces une partie du personnel germanophone.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 267-285
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102113
  • Authors
    • Alexandre Tessier

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/v33078j872746561/

Le mythe du self-made man et la formation hôtelière. Miroir des contradictions identitaires de l’enseignement hôtelier à Bruxelles avant 1940

La question de la formation professionnelle dans le secteur de l’hôtellerie apparaît à la fin du xixe siècle. L’étude de la création de l’école d’industrie hôtelière à Bruxelles illustre les difficultés du métier pour imposer publiquement ses revendications professionnelles. Ces obstacles sont surtout révélateurs de la perception éminemment négative dont souffre le métier dans l’opinion publique. Pour y remédier, les organismes défendront à la fois, de manière apparemment contradictoire, les réussites personnelles des grands noms du secteur et le développement d’une véritable science hôtelière dont les nouvelles règles théoriques devaient, selon leurs souhaits, valoriser le métier et lui assurer le recrutement d’un personnel spécialisé adéquat.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 335-354
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102116
  • Authors
    • Virginie Jourdain

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/663g3860w6815388/

Cooks and Waiters on the Move: the World and International Exhibition in Ghent, 1913, as a Destination for Hospitality Workers

In 1913 the city of Ghent hosted the World and International Exhibition. By exploring population registers, dossiers of the Police des etrangers, files of the labour court and letters written by hospitality workers applying for a job, the article tries to find out who were the hospitality workers (gender, nationality) attracted by the World Exhibition in this Belgian provincial city, and how their trip to Ghent fitted into their labour migration itinerary. The article also deals with the intermediaries (bureaux de placement, the local labour exchange, workers’organisations, personal networks), which informed hospitality workers of the Ghent job opportunities, and discusses the segmentation of the labour market in the hospitality trade.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 287-316
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102114
  • Authors
    • Patricia Van den Eeckhout

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/d1p366u4u42061u3/

Being a Female Cook in Mexico: an Approach to the Configuration of the Occupational Identities of Women in Mexican Kitchens at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Throughout the history of Mexico, traditional cuisine has been associated with women. Nowadays, current economic conditions have forced more women to extrapolate the domestic culinary knowledge to public kitchens. In addition, the rise and popularisation of culinary education has allowed the recruitment of more women in extra-domestic kitchens. While preparing food, these women share the way they see the world in the meanings they confer to the culinary work. These similarities make these women be perceived as social actors characterised by shared values, attitudes and capabilities. This article analyses the social dynamics that take place in the configuration of the occupational identities of women in Mexican public kitchens of the twenty-first century.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 317-334
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102115
  • Authors
    • José Antonio Vázquez-Medina

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/667338v876264680/

The Rise and Fall of Germans in the British Hospitality Industry, c. 1880-1920

German migrants were to be found in significant numbers in the British hospitality industry during the period 1880 to 1920. They worked as waiters, chefs, and managers of restaurants and hotels. This article has three main sections. It begins with a brief outline of the rise of restaurants and hotels in late nineteenth-century Britain and the role of migrants in this process. It then analyses the Germans in the British hospitality industry in the decades leading up to the First World War. The article then focuses upon the rise of hostility towards Germans with the approach of the Great War, which led to dismissal, internment and repatriation during the conflict.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 243-266
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102112
  • Authors
    • Panikos Panayi
    • Stefan Manz

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/l8003l8u42808373/

The History of Labour and Labour Relations in Hotels and Restaurants in Western Europe and the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: an Introduction

This introduction to the Dossier regarding the history of labour and labour relations in hotels and restaurants, presents a state-of-the-art survey of the history of occupational identities, remuneration, working conditions, training, recruitment and migration of cooks, waiters and other culinary workers, before the mass development of dining out, travel and tourism in the post-Second World War period.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 199-221
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102110
  • Authors
    • Patricia Van den Eeckhout

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/b76540654m6402x0/

Archéologie des vignobles grecs antiques

Les découvertes concernant la viticulture sont relativementmodestes en Grèce et consistent en fosses et tranchées disposées en lignes, datées principalement entre le ive s. et le dernier siècle avant notre ère. Les traces de marcottage sont présentes et la pratique des cultures intercalaires y est également attestée ; bien que non démontrée, la plantation en terrasses n’est pas à exclure. Le bilan des recherches, quelque peu décevant, doit être mis en relation avec la pratique de l’archéologie préventivedans ce pays.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original
  • Pages 113-124
  • DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102106
  • Authors
    • Philippe Boissinot

Quelle: http://brepols.metapress.com/content/hl3722j66l414620/