Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Food and social status
  • Part 2. Prohibitions and prescriptions from classical Islam to the present
  • Part 3. Food, gender, and the body in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • Part 4. Intoxication: Wine and hashish in literary sources and beyond
  • Part 5. Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from antiquity to the nineteenth century
  • Part 6. Managing scarcity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.