Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (59 page)
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Authors: Carolyn Steel
Acropolis, Athens, 123
Action Aid, 97
Addison, Joseph, 229
Advent, 210
Aegisthus, 214
Agamemnon, 214
Agora, Athens, 122, 123–5, 220
agribusiness, 43, 47–50, 59, 95–9
agriculture
see
farming/agricultureAgriculture Act (1947), 40
Agricultural Revolution, 25
Agrippa, Marcus, 255, 266
Agro Guard, 102
Ahwahneechee Indians, 37
Aldgate, 119
Alexander, Christopher, 310
Alexandria, 75
Amazonian rainforest, 10, 43
America
eating and drinking, 218–19, 234–7, 238, 243–4, 245
food supply, 95, 96, 97, 100–1
and the kitchen, 170, 182–5, 186, 190–3, 194
and the land, 24, 27, 32–4, 35–7, 38–9, 47–8
markets and supermarkets, 109–10, 112, 115, 116, 136–40, 144, 146
and utopians, 295, 296
waste, 269
American Home, The
, 191Amish, 295
‘Amsterdam Fleet’, 80
Amstutz, Dan, 97
Anatolia, 12, 13
animals
see
livestockAncora soup, 191
annona
, 77–8Antwerp, 73
Appalachian Mountains, 32
apples, 55–7, 60, 267
Apple Day, 55
Apulia, 67
Arcadia, 293
Arctic Circle, 7
Areopagoi, 18
Argentina, 43
Aristides, 74
Aristotle, 124–5, 293
Arno, River, 71
Arthur, King, 220
Arts and Crafts, 302
Arup, 286, 287, 289
Arup, Ove, 286
Asda Wal-Mart, 141–2, 151
Ashbee, Charles Robert, 299
Ashmead’s Kernel apple, 57, 60
Asia, 47, 79, 85, 239
Assurnassipal, King of Assyria, 222
Athenaeus, 217
Athens, 15, 16, 18, 72–3, 122, 123–5, 171, 217–18, 220, 271
Attlee government, 40
Augé, Marc, 147
Augustine, St, 293
Augustus, Emperor, 19, 77–8
Austria, 279–80
Bakhtin, Mikhail:
Rabelais and His World
, 126Balfour, Lady Eve, 39
The Living Soil
, 39
Balkans, 67, 79
Baltic, 78–80, 84
Baltimore, 110
bananas, 95, 101
Banham, Reyner:
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
, 188Banzhaf, John, 245
Barbary, 83
Barber, Cesar, 236, 245
Barcelona, 152
Barking, 68–9
Bay of Naples, 75
Bazalgette, Joseph, 257, 258, 266
BBC, 3, 4, 114, 165
BDP (Building Design Partnership), 143
Beckton, 257
Bedford, 4th Earl of, 128
Bedford, 6th Duke of, 129
Bedford Park, 177
Beecher, Catherine, 182–3, 190
Treatise on Domestic Economy
, 182–3
Beeton, Isabella:
Book of Household Management
, 174Behrens, Peter, 188
Belgrand, Eugène, 266, 276
Benedict, St, 293, 302
Bentham, Jeremy, 183, 274
Berlin, 277–8
Bermondsey, London, 117
‘Betty Crocker’, 191, 198
Betty Crocker cake mixtures, 192
Bible, 16
Bicester, 114
Billingsgate, 69, 84, 85, 116, 120
biofuels, 100–1
Birds Eye, 194
Birmingham, 90
Bismarck, Otto von, 32
Bisto adverts, 171
Black Death, 20
Blackfriars, London, 253
Black Sea, 72, 79
Black Sigatoka fungus, 101
Blanc, Raymond, 3–4
Bloomsbury, 240
Bluewater, 145
Blythman, Joanna, 63, 141, 142
Bad Food Britain
, 197
Shopped
, 141
Bohn, Katrin, 314
Bologna, 22, 71
Booth, Charles:
Life and Labour of the People in London
, 92–3Boquería, La (Mercat de la Boquería), Barcelona, 152
Borneo, 43
Borough Market, 105–11, 120, 148, 152
Bosporus, 72
Boston, 32, 109–10
Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 109–10
Boston Redevelopment Authority, 109
Boswell, James, 153
Boucher, François, 30
Bourdain, Anthony, 158
Bourne, Tom, 106–7
Bradford, 322
Bramah, Joseph, 253
Bramley apples, 56, 58
Braudel, Fernand, 23, 79
Braunfels, Wolfgang, 294
Brazil, 10, 23, 43
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 201, 209, 210, 213, 220, 242
Britain/UK/England
attitudes to food, 4–5
eating and drinking, 203–7, 210, 215–16, 220, 224–30, 232, 237–8, 239, 240, 241–2, 244, 245–6
food supply, 55–61, 62–3, 64–7, 68–70, 83–7, 89–94, 95–6, 97–8, 98–9, 100
and the kitchen, 155–66, 168–9, 170, 171, 173–81, 194, 195–200
and the land, 5–6, 20, 23–4, 25–7, 27–9, 30, 31, 32, 34, 40–1, 41–2, 42–3, 44–6, 48, 49, 51
markets and supermarkets, 105–11, 113–14, 116–17, 118–20, 128–30, 131–6, 140–4, 146–51
new approaches and ways ahead, 308, 312–13, 314, 319–20, 322–3
utopians, 294–5, 295–6, 299–302, 320
and waste, 249–59, 260–2, 262–3, 268, 269–70, 273, 278–9, 281
British Retail Consortium, 97–8
Brixton, London, 150
Broadacre City, 304, 319
Brogdale, 55–8, 60
Brogdale Horticultural Trust, 58
Bronze Age, 271
Bruegel, Pieter:
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
,
127
, 127Bruges, 79
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 258
Brunswick Centre, London, 240
BSE, 42
Building Design Partnership (BDP), 143
Bush, President George W., 97, 100–1
business lunch, 226–30
Button’s coffee house, London, 229
Cabet, Etienne, 297
Cabot, John, 85
Cadbury’s, 194, 300
Caesar, Julius, 17, 77
Cairo, 209–10
California, 92, 146
Campbell’s soup, 191
CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), 42
Carême, Antonin, 232
Cargill, 97
Caribbean, 85, 95
Carl, Ernst Ludwig, 23
Carluccio’s, 240
Carnival, 125–8, 130
Carrefour, 144
Carson, Rachel:
Silent Spring
, 41Carthage, 73
Cassiodorus, 76
Castiglione, Baldassare:
Il Libro del Cortegiano
, 218Çatalhöyük, 13
cattle, 8–9, 34, 67–8, 89, 96, 101–2, 119, 131–3
Cavendish bananas, 101
Celts, 17
Century
magazine, 36Ceylon, 136
Chadwick, Edwin, 253–4, 255, 276–7
Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
, 253–4
Chamberlain, Joseph, 312
Champagne, 81
Champ de Mars, Paris, 223
Charlemagne, King, 21, 294
Charles, Prince, 58
Charles I, King, 203
Charles II, King, 121
Châtillon-Plessis, 175
Cheapside, London, 119, 120, 121, 133
Cheshire cheese, 106
Chesterton, G.K.: ‘The Song Against Grocers’, 134
Chicago, 34, 233
Chicago Tribune
, 34chicken, 5–6, 51, 162–3, 312
Child, Sir Josiah, 85
children, 215–17
China, 9–10, 40, 89, 162, 256, 257, 274, 285–90, 309
Chipping Camden, 299
Chiquita, 101
Chiswick, London, 57, 116
Chongming Island, 286–7
Chongqing, 290
Christians/Christianity, 210, 293–4
Christmas, 3–4, 210
Cicero, 77
Cincinnati, 33–4, 275
Cittaslow (Slow Cities), 321
City of London,
118
(map), 118–19, 228Clarke, Peter, 59–60, 61
Claudius, Emperor, 75
Clichy, 276, 277
Cloaca Maxima, Rome, 255
Clodius, 77, 78
Cobbett, William, 28–9, 50, 88
Rural Rides
, 28–9, 31
Cobham, Surrey, 294
Coca-Cola, 243
coffee houses, 228–30
Colbert, Pastor Don, 245
Collings, Jesse, 312
Columbus, Christopher, 85
Comice pears, 56–7
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), 42
common land, loss of, 25–7
Common Market, 42
communes, Italian, 21–2
companionship, 211–14
Competition Bill, 97–8
Competition Commission, 114
Comté cheese, 107
ConAgra Foods, 94
Concord, Massachusetts, 35
Consolidated Commission of Sewers, 254, 256
Constable, John, 45–6
The Hay Wain
, 45–6
Constantinople, 79, 81
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs), 314
convenience foods, 158–62, 163–4, 191–2, 194, 195
cooking, 155–71, 172–4, 179–80, 181, 182, 187, 190, 191, 193–4, 194–5, 197, 198–200
cookshops, public, 167–9
Cooper, Derek, 72
Bad Food Guide
, 238
Corbusier
see
Le CorbusierCornhill, London, 119, 121, 228
Corn Laws, 32
Corporation of London, 148
Costa Rica, 95
countryside, attitudes to, 7, 8, 24–5, 44–6
Countryside Agency, 308
Covent Garden, London, 89, 108, 109, 110, 129, 155, 228, 252
Piazza, 128–30
Coventry, 142, 251
cows
see
cattleCox apples, 56, 58, 267
CPULs (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes), 314
Cranbrook, Lady Caroline, 150
Crick, 64–5, 66, 67
Crisis, (charity), 269
Critser, Greg:
Fat Land
, 242–3Crossness, 257