Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (60 page)

Cuba, 313–14

Currie, Edwina, 42

Curry, Sir Donald, 42

Curry Report (report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Food and Farming), 42, 44, 45

Cyprian, St, Bishop of Carthage, 272

Cyprus, 72

 

Danzig (Gdansk), 79, 80

Darwin, Charles, 273

Davies, Norman, 80

Daytons, 137

DDT, 40, 41

Dean, James, 137

Declaration of Independence, 27

Dedham Vale, 45

Defoe, Daniel, 86, 87

Defra, 58, 60, 64, 148

Delanoe, Bertrand, 151

Del Monte, 101

Demeter, 15

Denmark, 34, 78

Dennis, Andrew, 4, 6

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), 113, 140–1

Depression, 190

Descartes, René, 264–5

Des Essarts, N.T.L., 80

Despommier, Dickson, 314, 315

DETR (Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions), 113, 140–1

Deutsche Post, 66

Devon, 91

Diamond, Jared:
Collapse
, 274–5

Dickens, Charles, 35, 53

Diderot, Denis, 131

‘Dig for Victory’ campaign, 40,
284
, 312–13

Diggers (True Levellers), 294–5

Dimbleby, Richard, 166

dining
see
eating and drinking

Diocletian, Emperor, 73

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 19

dirt, fear of, 262–4

distribution, 64–6

Divine Health, 245

Dodd, George, 1, 23, 89, 90, 119

Dongtan, 285–90, 315, 316, 320

Dorset, 91

Douglas, Mary, 225–6, 262, 263–4

Drake, Sir Francis, 203

Drovers’ Journal
, 34

Dryden, John, 229

Dubai, 7

Duncan, Fred, 65, 66, 101–2

Dung Wharf, London, 253

Durand-Claye, Alfred, 277

Dust Bowl, 39

Dutch, the
see
Netherlands/the Dutch

Dutch East India Company, 80

 

Earth Mother, 15

East Anglia, 25

Easter, 210

East India Company, 85

eating and drinking, 201–46

Eden, Garden of, 16, 293

Edinburgh, 255

Edward IV, King, 84

Egypt, 72, 73, 76, 77, 79, 167, 207, 208, 272, 312

Eid-ul-Fitr, 209–10

Eleusinia, 15

Elizabeth I, Queen, 203, 223

Elle
magazine, 166–7

Elsanta strawberries, 59

Elstar apples, 57

Elton, Ben, 158

enclosure, 25–6, 27

energy, 48–50

Engels, Friedrich, 298

England
see
Britain/UK/England

English Heritage, 46

Enlightenment, 175, 264–5, 296, 305

Equitable Pioneers of Rochdale, 135

Erasmus, Desiderius:
De civilitate morum puerilium
, 218

Erie Canal, 32, 34

Escoffier, Auguste, 155, 156

Essex, 20, 28, 89

Essex University, 48

Etruscans, 254

EU (European Union), 98, 144, 259, 281

Euboulos, 124

Eucharist, 210

Euphrates, River, 14

European Union
see
EU

Euston station, 90

Evelyn, John, 252, 258

Exel, 66

 

factory farming
see
industrial farming

Fair Trade, 310

Falstaff, Sir John, 227

Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston, 109–10

FAO
see
Food and Agriculture Organisation

FareShare, 269–70

farming/agriculture, 3–4, 8, 10–12, 16, 19, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29–30, 31–2, 38–43, 44–5, 47–50, 51–2, 95–6, 97, 308–9
see also
urban agriculture

Farrell, Terry, 319

fast food, 234–6, 237, 238–9, 243, 244–5

Faversham, Kent, 84

Federal Realty, 146

Ferguson, Niall, 295

Fertile Crescent,
11
(map), 11–12

fertilisers, artificial, 37–9

festivals, agrarian, 15

Fête de la Fédération, 223

feudalism, 20–1

Filmer, Sir Robert, 26

Finkelstein, Joanne:
Dining Out
, 240

First World War, 38–9, 93, 135, 181, 186, 192

fish, 68–9, 78–9

Fishman, Charles:
The Wal-Mart Effect
, 96

Fitzstephen, William, 168–9

Flatford Mill, 46

Fletcher, John:
The Faithful Shepherdess
, 24

Flipo, Emmanuel, 146

Florence, 71, 72

Florida, 36, 259

fodder crops, 25

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 8–9, 98, 101

Food Hygiene Mission Control programme, 197–8

food labels, 262

Food Lovers’ Fair, 109

food security, 99–102

food sovereignty, 311

Food Standards Agency, 198, 262

Food Strategy (London), 149

Ford, Henry, 59

forest, 9–10, 17–18, 20, 43

Forsyth, Hazel, 227

Fortune
magazine, 192

Forum (Forum Romanum), Rome, 15, 122

Forum Holitorium, Rome, 121–2

Foucault, Michel, 133

Foul Burn, Edinburgh, 255

Fourier, Charles, 296, 301, 302

Fowler, Charles, 129

Fragonard, Jean Honoré, 30

France, 21, 28, 29–31, 80–3, 106, 107, 141, 175, 216, 223, 238–9, 276–7

Francis I, King, 223

Frankenfoods, 243

Frankfurt kitchen, 186–7

Franks, 19–20, 21

Frederick, Christine, 184–5, 186

‘freegans’, 270

free trade, case for, 87–9

French Revolution, 83, 131, 174, 223, 231

Friends of the Earth:
Calling the Shots
, 142

From Kitchen to Garret
, 174–5

Fulham, London, 116

Fuller, Thomas, 69

Future of Food, The
(film), 48

 

Galileo, 264

Garcia, Deborah Koons, 48

Garden Cities, 299–302

Garden Cities Association, 300, 320

Gardeners’ Company, 252

Gaul, 73

Geddes, Patrick, 317–18

General Mills, 191, 192

genetic modification (GM), 47–8

Geneva, 30

Gennevilliers, 277, 280

George III, King, 28, 296

George Hill, Cobham, 294

Germania, 17, 50

Germans/Germanic tribes, 17, 18

Germany, 21, 32, 67, 141, 186–7, 194, 229

germ theory, 177–8, 183

Gershwin, Ira, 215

Ghost Town Britain
(report), 113

Giraffe, 240

Girardet, Herbert:
Cities, People, Planet
, 259

Glasgow, 135

Glasse, Hannah, 237

GLC (Greater London Council), 108

Glorious Revolution, 173

Golden Delicious apples, 57, 60

GM (genetic modification), 47–8

Gorleston, 69

Goths, 19–20

grain, 10–12, 14–16, 32, 38–9, 101–2

Grampian Foods, 65

Grange, Neil, 289

Granny Smith apples, 60

Greater London Council (GLC), 108

Great Fire (1666), 228, 252

Great Plains, 39

Great Stink (1858), 256, 257

Great Western Railway,
90

Greece, 74, 217, 278–9
see also
Greeks/ancient Greece

Greeks/ancient Greece, 14–15, 124, 213–14, 271
see also
Athens

Green, Henrietta, 109

Greenwich, London, 90

Greenwich Village, New York, 115

Grimod de la Reynière, 158, 231

grocers, 133–6

Gropius, Walter, 188

Gros Michel bananas, 101

Gruen, Victor, 103, 137–8, 140, 144, 145

Guild of Handicrafts, 299

Gummer, John, 141, 150

‘Gummer effect’, 141

Gutierrez, Alejandro, 287, 288

 

Haber-Bosch process, 50

Habermas, Jürgen, 229

Habsburgs, 223

Haggadah, 207–8

Haito, Bishop, 294

Hamburg, 79

hamburgers, 234–5, 236–7

‘Hamburger University’, 236

Hameau de la Reine, Le, Versailles, 30

Hammersmith, London, 116

Hampton, 146–7

Hampton Court, 256

Hand, Kevin, 159, 160, 161, 162

Hanseatic League, 78–9

Harbor Place, Baltimore, 110

Harold, King, 20

Harvey, William, 264

Hastings, Battle of, 20

Haughley, Suffolk, 39

Haussmann, Baron Georges, 265–6, 275

Havana, 313, 314

Hazlitt, William, 176

Heasman, Michael, 95

Heathrow, 151

Heffernan, Bill, 61

Heinberg, Richard, 50

Hellespont, 72

Hemel Hempstead, 65

Henley-on-Thames, 84

Henri IV, King, 128

Henry VII, King, 85

Henry VIII, King, 223, 292

Herodotus, 220

Hesiod, 16

Hesperides, 293

Hewett, Samuel, 69

high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), 243

Highgate,
29

High Street Britain 2015
(report), 62

Hinduism, 9

Historia Augusta
, 273

Hodgson, Randolph, 109

Hoffman (chemist), 256, 259

Hogarth, William:
Morning
, 129

hogs
see
pigs

Homer, 14–15, 214

Horkesley Park Heritage and Conservation Centre, 46

Horticultural Society, 58

Hoskins, Rob, 323

house design, 171–2, 178–9, 180, 182–3, 184, 186–9, 192–3, 195–7

House of Commons, 93, 256, 296