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Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

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by Carolyn Steel

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

  cooking, 172, 173, 174, 194, 195

  Francis I, King, 223

  Frankenfoods, 243

  Frankfurt kitchen, 186–7

  Franks, 19–20, 21

  Frederick, Christine, 184–5, 186

  Household Engineering, 184–5

  ‘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

  The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 174

  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

  supply, 67, 72–3, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81–3, 84

  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

  Almanach des Gourmands, 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

  Select Committee, 279

  Housing Space Standards, 197

  Houston, Texas, 244

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

  Garden Cities of Tomorrow, 299, 300, 301

  Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, 300

  Howard Johnson restaurant chain, 233–4

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

  Les Misérables, 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

  The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 115

  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

  Ken
tucky 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

  Vers un Architecture, 188

  Villa Stein-de Monzie, 189, 189

  Ville Contemporaine, 302–3, 303

  Ville Radieuse, 303

  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

  Livestock Revolution, 8

  Livingstone, Ken, 149, 151

  Lloyd, Edward, 228

  Lloyd’s of London, 228

  Locke, John, 26–7, 294

  Two Treatises of Government, 26–7

  Logue, Edward J., 109, 110

  Loi Royer (1973), 141

  London

  ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign, 312–13

  eating and drinking, 203–6, 226–30, 232, 239, 240, 241–2

  food supply, 68–70, 73, 83–7, 88–9, 89–90, 91–3, 94

  kitchens and cooking, 154, 155–8, 168, 168–9, 177, 196

  and the land, 7, 23, 24, 28

  markets and supermarkets, 105–11, 116–17, 118–20, 121, 128–30, 131–3, 143, 148–9, 150–1

  waste, 249–59, 265

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

  London Development Agency, 148

  Lord Mayor’s Banquet, 202

  Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, 52

  The Allegory and Effects of Bad Government, 22

  The Effects of Good Government on City and Country, 2, 21–2

  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

  Essay on the Principle of Population, 273

  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

  Count on Us range, 159

  M&S Cook! range, 198

  Martial, 272

  Martin, John, 257

  Martino, Maestro: Libro de Arte Coquinaria, 173

  Marx, Karl, 296, 297–8, 300, 301

  Communist Manifesto, 298

  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

  Utopia, 291–2

  Morley, Elliot, 100

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

  News from Nowhere, 298

  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

  Down and Out in Paris and London, 169

  The Road to Wigan Pier, 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

  eating and drinking, 223, 229, 230–2

  food supply, 61, 67, 72, 80–3, 87

  local shops, 151

 
markets, 107, 108–9, 131, 148

  Orwell’s description of hotel kitchen in, 169

  waste, 265–6, 275, 276, 277

  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

  Slow Food, 320–1

  Petronius: Satyricon, 221

  Philadelphia, 32

  Philip Morris Co. Inc. (Kraft), 94

  Piazza Montanara, Rome, 121–2

  Picardy, 81

  Pig City project, 315–16, 317

  Piggley Wiggly store, 136

  pigs, 3, 17–18, 23, 33–4, 275, 280–1, 136

  Pilgrim Fathers, 295

  Pizza Express, 207

  Place Royale (now Place des Vosges), Paris, 128

  Plato, 171, 271, 291, 293, 300

  Pliny the Younger, 19, 221, 254

  Plunkett, Mrs H.M.: Women, Plumbers and Doctors, or Household Sanitation, 183–4

  Pnyx Hill, Athens, 15

  Poland, 67, 79–80, 144

  Policy Commission on the Future of Food and Farming, 42

  Political Register, 28

  politics

  and dining, 220–3

  and markets, 122–5

 

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