The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Author: Andrew Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 2556

ISBN-13: 0199734968

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Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.

Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550-1820
Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550-1820

Author: Nancy Cox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 131706450X

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In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The first half of the book focuses on these labels and on mercantile language more broadly; how it was used in trade and how lexicographers and others approached what, for them, were new vocabularies. In the second half, the author turns to the goods themselves, and their relationships with terms such as ’luxury’, ’choice’ and ’love’; terms that were used as descriptors in marketing goods. The language of objects is a subject of ongoing interest and the study of consumables opens up new ways of looking at the everyday language of the early modern period as well as the experiences of trade and consumption for both merchant and consumer.