Includes bibliographical references and index.

Food and the city / Peter J. Atkins and Derek J. Oddy -- Urbanization and nutrition : historical research reconsidered / Hans Jürgen Teuteberg -- 'A tale of two cities' : a comparison of food supply in London and Paris in the 1850s / Peter J. Atkins -- Urbanization and dietary change in Mediterranean Europe : Barcelona, 1870-1935 / Roser Nicolau-Nos and Josep Pujol-Andreu -- Food science, food politics : Max Rubner and 'rational nutrition' in fin-de-siècle Berlin / Corinna Treitel -- How to feed three million inhabitants : Berlin in the first years after the Second World War, 1945-1948 / Jürgen Schmidt -- Food fraud and the big city : Brussels' responses to food anxieties in the nineteenth century / Peter Scholliers -- Food quality in London and the rise of the public analyst, 1870-1939 / Derek J. Oddy -- Municipal laboratories and the analysis of foodstuffs in France under the Third Republic : a case study of the Paris Municipal Laboratory, 1878-1907 / Alessandro Stanziani -- The 'war against food adulteration' : municipal food monitoring and citizen self-help associations in Germany, 1870s-1880s / Vera Hierholzer -- The discovery of vitamins and its impact on the food industry : the issue of tinned sweetened condensed skim milk, 1890-1940 / Adel P. den Hartog -- First-class restaurants and luxury food stores : the emergence of the Soviet culture of consumption in the 1930s / Jukka Gronow -- A shop window of the regime : the position of Prague as the capital in the preferential supply system of selected Czechoslovakian cities, 1950-1970 / Martin Franc -- Born-in-the-city : the supermarket in Germany / Peter Lummel -- The changing position of exotic foods in post-war Amsterdam / Anneke H. van Otterloo -- The immigrant impact upon London's food since c.1850 / Panikos Panayi -- Scientists at the table : the cultural significance of scientists' festive meals in Berlin, 1830-1940 / Ulrike Thoms -- Reforming diet at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe / Alain Drouard -- Turtle soup and water porridge : some social and cultural perspectives on food habits in the city of Oslo, 1860-2000 / Virginie Amilien -- Food markets in the city of Bordeaux from the 1960s until today : historical evolution and anthropological aspects / Isabelle Téchoueyres -- Conclusion / Peter J. Atkins and Derek J. Oddy.

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