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 Sarasu a --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.