The book is currently out of stock
Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining Victorian America
Authors
Parameters
- Pages
- 368 pages
- Reading time
- 13 hours
More about the book
Focusing on dining customs in late 19th-century America, this book explores how genteel dining reflected social stability amid significant societal changes. Susan Williams examines the rituals of the expanding middle class, detailing the material culture of Victorian dining, including furniture and utensils. She also analyzes meal structures and the evolving nature of food and drink. Accompanied by rich illustrations and recipes from the era, the work offers an insightful glimpse into Victorian life and its culinary landscape.
Book purchase
Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining Victorian America, Susan Williams
- Language
- Released
- 1996
We’ll notify you via email once we track it down.
Payment methods
- Title
- Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining Victorian America
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Susan Williams
- Publisher
- University of Tennessee Press
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN13
- 9780870499128
- Category
- Social sciences, History, Maps and Travel, World history
- Description
- Focusing on dining customs in late 19th-century America, this book explores how genteel dining reflected social stability amid significant societal changes. Susan Williams examines the rituals of the expanding middle class, detailing the material culture of Victorian dining, including furniture and utensils. She also analyzes meal structures and the evolving nature of food and drink. Accompanied by rich illustrations and recipes from the era, the work offers an insightful glimpse into Victorian life and its culinary landscape.