The Fat of the Land:
The Proceedings of the 2002 Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery
320 pages, 170 x 245 mm; paperback.
ISBN 0 9535057 1 5 £25.00

Contents

Introduction

The Apparition of Fat in Western Nutritional Theory
Ken Albala

Gluttony: The Fifth Deadly Sin
Joan P Alcock

The Fats of the Land: How Sumo Wrestlers, Tempura and Viking became Foodtainment in Japan
Michael Ashkenazi

Fat in the Jewish Diet
Josephine Bacon

Fat as a Preservative: Cheese in Oil
Rosemary Barron and Geraldene Holt

Fat and Flavour
Fritz Blank and Len Fisher

Fat Words Butter No Parsnip: In memory of Jenny Macarthur
Andrew Dalby

Waste Not Want Not: The Excesses of Gluttony in the early to mid-Victorian Period
Helen Day

Jack Spratt's Horror: Lardo Rediscovered
Anne Dolamore

Hunting for Fat, Searching for Lean
Nichola Fletcher

Polyunsaturated Fats and Cancer
Barry A Groves

Oil in Japanese Cookery — Comments on an essay by Naomichi Ishige
Richard Hosking

Luscious Lipids
Philip Iddison

Celebrating Fat
Manpreet Janeja

Masculinity, Potency and Pig Fat: the Kelabit of Sarawak
Monica Janowski

"Even a Greedy Look is Disagreeable"
Cathy K Kaufman

The Fats of Life
Sotiris Kitrilakis

Fried in the Heartland
Bruce Kraig

Beyond Food and Fat, the Coconut as the Filipino Tree of Life
Pia Lim-Castillo

Eat Fat and Fast: The Olive Oil Pastries of Crete
Diana Farr Louis

A Brief History of Fat, Fasting, and the Balanced Diet: The Greek Point of View
Linda Lyons-Makris

The Pig in Irish Cuisine past and present
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Fat in the Victorian Kitchen: a medium for cooking, control, deviance and crime
Gerald Mars and Valerie Mars

Medieval Arab Oils
Charles Perry

Olive Oil: Old World, New World - A Culinary and Cultural Bridge
Judy Ridgway

The Role and Function of Butter in the Diet of the Monk and Penitent in Early Medieval Ireland
Regina Sexton

Cooking Fats in Iran
Margaret Shaida

A Fat Difference
Renée Valeri

Vegetable Oils: A Brief Survey
Harlan Walker

The Greasier the Better: Dumba and Its Place in the Uzbek Diet
Russell Zanca

The succulence of Kabab, The Savour of Rice
Sami Zubaida

Other papers and events given at the Symposium

Glossary

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