The Harlequin Eaters

Author : Janet Beizer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517915896
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harlequin Eaters written by Janet Beizer and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history The concept of the "harlequin" refers to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor in nineteenth-century Paris. In The Harlequin Eaters, Janet Beizer investigates how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the earlier, similarly patchworked Commedia dell'arte Harlequin character and can be used to rethink the entangled place of class, race, and food in the longer history of modernism. By superimposing figurations of the edible harlequin taken from a broad array of popular and canonical novels, newspaper articles, postcard photographs, and lithographs, Beizer shows that what is at stake in nineteenth-century discourses surrounding this mixed meal are representations not only of food but also of the marginalized people--the "harlequin eaters"--who consume it at this time when a global society is emerging. She reveals the imbrication of kitchen narratives and intellectual-aesthetic practices of thought and art, presenting a way to integrate socioeconomic history with the history of literature and the visual arts. The Harlequin Eaters also offers fascinating background to today's problems of food inequity as it unpacks stories of the for-profit recycling of excess food across class and race divisions.

Author : Janet Beizer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452970467
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harlequin Eaters written by Janet Beizer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history The concept of the “harlequin” refers to the practice of reassembling dinner scraps cleared from the plates of the wealthy to sell, replated, to the poor in nineteenth-century Paris. In The Harlequin Eaters, Janet Beizer investigates how the alimentary harlequin evolved in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the earlier, similarly patchworked Commedia dell’arte Harlequin character and can be used to rethink the entangled place of class, race, and food in the longer history of modernism. By superimposing figurations of the edible harlequin taken from a broad array of popular and canonical novels, newspaper articles, postcard photographs, and lithographs, Beizer shows that what is at stake in nineteenth-century discourses surrounding this mixed meal are representations not only of food but also of the marginalized people—the “harlequin eaters”—who consume it at this time when a global society is emerging. She reveals the imbrication of kitchen narratives and intellectual–aesthetic practices of thought and art, presenting a way to integrate socioeconomic history with the history of literature and the visual arts. The Harlequin Eaters also offers fascinating background to today’s problems of food inequity as it unpacks stories of the for-profit recycling of excess food across class and race divisions.

Author : Mark McWilliams
Publisher : Prospect Books
ISBN 13 : 1909248444
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food & Markets: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2014 written by Mark McWilliams and published by Prospect Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes papers presented at the 2014 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery

Author : Ray Hunziker
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620080079
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Aquariums written by Ray Hunziker and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Ray Hunziker, longtime editor of Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine and lifelong fish keeper, is the ideal tutor for aquarists looking to take a dive into the saltwater end of the tank! Marine Aquariums begins with a discussion of seawater and water quality, the most critical part of keeping marine fishes happily swimming (and breathing) in their tank. Hunziker continues with a step-by-step explanation of setting up a marine aquarium, discussing aquarium types, the number of fishes for the size tank selected, siting the tank, stands, substrates, temperature, lighting, filtration and dcor.The chapter on stocking and maintaining the tank discussing purchasing healthy, vibrant fish, acclimatizing them to the tank, feeding them, and monitoring the tank on a regular basis. An elaborate chapter on the various types of saltwater fishes available, "Ideal Fish for Your Marine Aquarium, "details and illustrates nearly 70 fishes divided into the following categories: moray eels, squirrelfish and soldierfish, lion fish, groupers, cardinalfish, butterflyfish, angelfish, damselfish, hawkfish, wrasses, jawfish, gobies, surgeonfish, and triggerfish. The final chapter discusses keeping fish healthy, including the signs of illness, treating various ailments, and setting up a quarantine tank for affected fish. Resources, glossary, index included.

Author : Antoinette van Heugten
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460320883
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tulip Eaters written by Antoinette van Heugten and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child's life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her family's troubled history in the dark days of World War II… It's the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has been murdered. Her infant daughter is missing. And the only clue is the body of an unknown man on the living-room floor, clutching a Luger in his cold, dead hand. Frantic to find Rose, Nora puts aside her grief and frustration with the local police to start her own search. But the contents of a locked metal box she finds in her parents' attic leave her with as many questions as answers—and suggest the killer was not a stranger. Saving her daughter means delving deeper into her family's darkest history, leading Nora half a world away to Amsterdam, where her own unsettled past and memories of painful heartbreak rush back to haunt her. As Nora feverishly pieces together the truth from an old family diary, she's drawn back to a city under Nazi occupation, where her mother's alliances may have long ago sealed her own–and Rose's—fate.

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101147105
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harlequin written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into Anita Blake's world-a world already overflowing with power-come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

Author : Sean P. Graham
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423596
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Snakes written by Sean P. Graham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 125 million years ago on the floodplains of North America, a burrowing lizard started down the long evolutionary path of shedding its limbs. The 60-plus species of snakes found in Sean P. Graham's American Snakes have this ancestral journey to thank for their ubiquity, diversity, and beauty. Although many people fear them, snakes are as much a part of America's rich natural heritage as redwoods, bald eagles, and grizzly bears. Neither a typical field guide nor an exhaustive reference, American Snakes is instead a fascinating study of the suborder Serpentes. Brimming with intriguing and unusual stories- of hognose snakes that roll over and play dead, blindsnakes with tiny vestigial lungs, rainbow-hued dipsadines, and wave-surfing sea-snakes- the text is interspersed with scores of gorgeous full-color images of snakes, from the scary to the sublime.

Author : Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744445
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harlequin's Millions written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the writer Milan Kundera called Czechoslovakia's greatest contemporary writer comes a novel (now in English for the first time) peopled with eccentric, unforgettable inhabitants of a home for the elderly who reminisce about their lives and their changing country. Written with a keen eye for the absurd and sprinkled with dialogue that captures the poignancy of the everyday, this novel allows us into the mind of an elderly woman coming to terms with the passing of time. Praise for Too Loud a Solitude: "Short, sharp and eccentric. Sophisticated, thought-provoking and pithy." --Spectator "Unmissable, combines extremes of comedy and seriousness, plus pathos, slapstick, sex and violence all stirred into one delicious brew." --The Guardian "In imaginative riches and sheer exhilaration it offers more than most books twice its size. At once tender and scatological, playful and sombre, moving and irresistibly funny." --The Independent on Sunday Praise for I Served the King of England: "A joyful, picaresque story, which begins with Baron Munchausen-like adventures and ends in tears and solitude." -- James Wood, The London Review of Books "A comic novel of great inventiveness ... charming, wise, and sad--and an unexpectedly good laugh." --The Philadelphia Inquirer "An extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel." --The New York Times "Dancing Lessons unfurls as a single, sometimes maddening sentence. The gambit works. Something about that slab of wordage carries the eye forward, promising an intensity simply unattainable by your regularly punctuated novel." --Ed Park, The New York Times Book Review

Author : Franois-Rgis Gaudry
Publisher : Artisan Books
ISBN 13 : 1648290590
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Eat Italy! written by Franois-Rgis Gaudry and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate book on every aspect of Italian food—inspiring, comprehensive, colorful, extensive, joyful, and downright encyclopedic.

Author : Paula Hammond
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190869680X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharks and Underwater Monsters written by Paula Hammond and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the deadly great white shark to the legendary giant squid, Sharks and Underwater Monsters takes the reader on a fascinating journey into a strange and little-known world. Each featured creature is illustrated with a large annotated photograph with supporting colour artworks, accompanied by locator maps and information boxes.