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Housing Space Standards
, 197

Houston, Texas, 244

Howard, Ebenezer, 299–302, 318, 319, 320

Howard Johnson restaurant chain, 233–4

Hugo, Victor, 35, 247, 260, 265, 276

Hungary, 67, 79, 144

Huns, 18

hunting, 17, 19–20

 

Ice Age, 11

identity, food in relation to, 236–9

IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution), 66

India, 47, 48, 89, 101, 117, 215, 274

Indiana, 36, 296

Indians, American, 37
see also
Native Americans

industrial farming, 3–4, 8, 31–5, 43–4, 48–50

Industrial Revolution, 237

Ingram, Edgar, 234

Inns of Court, 203, 205, 206, 214

Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD), 66

Ireland, 278–9, 323

Islington, 68, 132

Italy, 21–2, 28, 67, 141, 170, 172, 173, 194, 195, 216, 217, 218, 238–9

 

Jacobs, Jane, 115–16, 145, 147

Jefferson, Thomas, 296

Jeffrey, Madhur, 216

Jainism, 9

Jamaica, 85, 98

James II, King, 173

Japan, 215

Jefferson, Thomas, 27

Jericho, 13

Jerrold, William:
Epicure’s Year Book and Table Companion
, 232

Jews, 207–9

Johnson, Samuel, 86

Jones, Inigo, 128

Jordan, River, 13

Jubilee Line, 109

Juvenal, 169

 

Kansas, 102, 234

Kaplan, Stephen, 81

Kemp, Barry, 77

Kensington, London, 23

Kensington Gardens, 40

Kent, 120, 319

Kentucky Fried Chicken, 238

Kerr, Robert, 179

Kinsale, 323

kitchen, the, 153–200

kitchen ranges, 180–1

Klein, Naomi:
No Logo
, 241

Knights Templar, 205

Koenigsburg, 126

Kroc, Ray, 234–6

Krushchev, Nikita, 193

 

land, 1–52

land ownership, 18–21, 25–7

Lang, Tim, 95

Langland, William:
Piers Plowman
, 222

Larsa, 13

Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester, 24

La Varenne:
La Cuisinier François
, 173

Lawrence, Felicity, 98

Lea, River, 84, 253

Leadenhall, 120

Le Corbusier, 187–8, 189, 302–3, 305

Lefebvre, Henri, 22

Leicester, 322

Lent, 125, 127, 210

Leroux, Pierre, 276

Les Halles, Paris, 108–9, 131

Letchworth, 302

Levenstein, Harvey:
Paradox of Plenty
, 191, 236

Leverhulme, Lord, 300

Liebig, Justus von, 38, 39, 47, 254, 255, 274, 276

Lieferantzkauf
, 80

Lihotzky, Grete, 186, 187, 190

Limehouse, 257

Lipton, Thomas, 135–6, 137

Lipton’s Tea, 136

Lithuania, 79

Liverpool, 90

livestock, 5–6, 8–9, 25, 30, 32–4, 43, 51, 67–8, 119, 131–3, 267

Livingstone, Ken, 149, 151

Lloyd, Edward, 228

Lloyd’s of London, 228

Locke, John, 26–7, 294

Logue, Edward J., 109, 110

Loi Royer
(1973), 141

London

London Bridge, 84, 90, 108, 119, 120

London Development Agency, 148

Lord Mayor’s Banquet,
202

Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, 52

Louis XIV, King, 83, 173, 223

Louis XV, King, 83

Louis XVI, King, 83

Low Countries, 21

Lübeck, 78–9

Ludlow, 321

Lynn’s Pippin apples, 57

Lyons, 116

 

McDonald’s, 195, 234, 235–6, 238, 243, 245

Madrid, 72

MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), 58

Maidstone, 84

Maison Citrohan, 188

malls
see
shopping malls

Malthus, Thomas Robert, 273–4, 276

Manchester, 90

manners, table, 214–16, 217–20

Marché Monge, Paris, 107

Marie-Antoinette, 30

Marie de Medici, 121

markets, 105–11, 118–33, 148–9, 150–1, 152

Marks & Spencer (M&S), 65, 158, 159, 163, 194

Martial, 272

Martin, John, 257

Martino, Maestro:
Libro de Arte Coquinaria
, 173

Marx, Karl, 296, 297–8, 300, 301

Massachusetts, 35

Mayhew, Henry, 265

meals
see
eating and drinking

mealtimes, 224–6

meat, 3–4, 5–6, 8–9, 32–4, 43, 67–8, 131–2, 175, 176–7, 267

Mediterranean, 12, 73, 84, 194, 224, 255

Melba, Dame Nellie, 155

Memphis, 136

Mercat de la Boquería, Barcelona, 152

Mesopotamia, 12, 13, 76, 167, 271

Metropolitan Board of Works, 249, 256–7

Michelson, Patricia, 199

Middle Temple Hall, 203–6

Middle Temple Inn, 203

Midlands, 84

Midwest, 32

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 188

milk, 69–70, 91–2, 93–4, 95–6, 98

Milk Control Board, 93

Mill, John Stuart, 311

Mille, A., 276, 277

Minet (
traiteur
), 230

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), 58

Ministry of Food, 94

Minnesota, 137–8

Mintel, 195

MIT, 183

Modernism, 187–9, 302–3

Monbiot, George:
Captive State
, 97

Monopolies and Mergers Commission, 93

Monsanto, 41, 47–8, 309

Monster Raving Loony Party, 42

Mons Testaceus, Rome, 272

Montaigne, 211

Moore, Jane, 3, 4

More, Sir Thomas, 291–2, 300, 301, 302

Morley, Elliot, 100

Morris, William, 298–9, 300, 301, 302, 312

Mozambique, 98

Muir, John, 35–7

Muller, Paul Hermann, 40

Muslims, 209–10

Mussolini, Benito, 121

MVRDV (architects), 315–16

 

Napoleon I, 296

Napoleon III, 277

National Fruit Collections
see
Brogdale

Native Americans, 27
see also
Indians, American

nature, 16–17, 35–7

Neal’s Yard Dairy, 109

Neat House Garden, Chelsea, 252–3

Necker, Jacques, 81

Nelson, George, 192–3

Nestlé, 94, 98

Nestle, Marion, 95

Netherlands/the Dutch, 25, 34, 79, 80, 316

New Covent Garden, 108, 148

New Economics Foundation, 113

Newgate, 119

Newham Council, 151

New Harmony, 296

New Jersey Supreme Court, 145

New Lanark, 295–6

New Model Army, 294

New Spitalfields, 148

Newton, Isaac, 175, 264

New York, 32, 110, 115, 137, 268

Nicholas I, Tsar, 232

Nile Delta, 11

Nippur, 13

Nixon, Richard, 193

Norfolk, 69, 119

Normans, 20

North Africa, 73, 259, 272

North Sea, 79, 259

 

obesity, 244, 245, 246

Observer
, 267

Ogilby, John: map of City of London,
118
, 118–19

Ohio River, 33

oil, 49–50

Old Testament, 16

Oliver, Jamie, 166

Orwell, George, 53, 169, 237–8

Ostia, 19, 75

Ottoman Empire, 79

over-eating, 242–4

Owen, Robert, 295–6, 300, 301, 302

Oxfam, 98

OXO company, 38

 

Padua,
104
, 121, 122–3

Palazzo della Ragione (
Il Salone
), Padua,
104
, 122–3

Palermo, 130

Palestine, 12–13

palm oil, 243

Panorama
, 165–6

Paris

Parisian Royal Agricultural Society, 30

Parker, Barry, 302

Parliament, 25
see also
House of Commons

Pasqua Rosee coffee house, London, 228

Passover, 207, 208

Pasteur, Louis, 183

pastoralism, 8, 24–5, 30

Pavlova, Anna, 155

Peabody, George, 180

Peak oil, 50

peasants, 20–21, 47, 122, 311

Peasants’ Revolt (1381), 130

Peel, Robert, 255

Penn, Admiral William, 85

Penn, William, 24

Pennine Foods, 159–62

Pennsylvania, 24

Pepsi, 243

Pepys, Samuel, 129–30, 227

permaculture, 309

Persia, 72

Peru, 238

pesticides, 40–1

Petrini, Carlo, 310, 320–1