Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meals, food narratives, and sentiments of belonging in past and present / Peter Scholliers -- Commensality and social morphology : an essay of typology / Claude Grignon -- Upholding status : the diet of a noble family in early nineteenth-century La Mancha / Carmen Sarasúa -- Promise of more. The rhetoric of (Food) consumption in a society searching for itself : West Germany in the 1950s / Michael Wildt -- Identification process at work : virtues of the Italian working-class diet in the first half of the twentieth century / Paolo Sorcinelli -- Bourgeois good? Sugar, norms of consumption and the labouring classes in nineteenth-century France / Martin Bruegel -- Old people, alcohol and identity in Europe, 1300-1700 / A. Lynn Martin -- National nutrition exhibition : a new nutritional narrative in Norway in the 1930s / Inger Johanne Lyngo -- Wine, champagne and the making of French identity in the Belle Epoque / Kolleen M. Guy -- Reading food riots : scarcity, abundance and national identity / Amy Bentley -- French bread and Algerian wine : conflicting identities in French Algeria / Willy Jansen.

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