and supply, 76–8
Pompey, 78
Poole, 142
‘Poor Man Paies for All, The’, 24
Pope, Alexander, 229
Popular Housing Group, 197
Porkopolis see Cincinnati
Portugal, 80
Post, Emily, 218–19
Poultry, London, 119, 120
PPG6, 140, 141
PPS6, 143–4
Prato, 122
Primrose Hill, London, 241–2
Prometheus, 16
Punch, 129
Punch (puppet), 129–30
‘Punch’s birthday’, 129–30
Puteoli, 75
Queenhithe, 84–5, 120
Queen’s Market, London, 151
railways, 31–2, 90–1, 132–3, 177, 233, 299
Ramadan, 209
Ramesseum, Thebes, 76, 77
Ramsay, Gordon, 158
Randall, James, 96
RDCs (regional distribution centres), 64–6
ready meals, 158–62, 163–4, 192, 194, 195, 198
ready-to-cook meals, 198
Reclus, Élisée, 317
recycling, 250–51, 257, 278–81
Reform Club, 232
regional distribution centres (RDCs), 64–6
Reid, Donald, 250, 280
Paris Sewers and Sewerment, 265
restaurants and restaurant chains, 230–6, 239–42, 243, 244–5
Retail Logistics, 66
Richard II, King, 130, 222
Richards, Ellen, 183, 184
Richelieu, Cardinal, 128
Rick Stein’s Food Heroes Christmas Special (TV programme), 3, 4
Riga, 79
rites, agrarian, 15–16
rivers, importance of, 14, 71, 75, 79–81, 84, 88, 120, 255
Robinson, Ann, 98
Rochester, 84
Rogers, Richard: Cities for a Small Planet, 319
Romans, 14, 15–16, 16–17, 19, 40, 67, 77, 83–4, 167–8, 172, 220–2 see also Rome, ancient Romanticism, 8, 31
Rome, 22, 121–2, 195, 238
ancient, 15, 16, 17, 19, 50, 67, 73–5, 77–8, 102, 121–2, 171–2, 222, 254–5, 272–3, 275
see also Romans
Romulus and Remus, 16
Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 37, 39
Roosevelt, President Theodore ‘Teddy’, 37
Rosny, Antoine, 231
Rossi, Aldo, 123
Rotherham, 246
Rotherhithe, 257
Rotterdam, 64
Rouse, Jim, 110, 138
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 18, 25, 30–1, 35, 175, 230, 294
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, 30
Rowntree, Joseph, 300
Rowntree Foundation, 197
Royal Exchange, 228
Rumford, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count, 180–1
Rumford range, 180–1, 232
Rungis Market, Paris, 148
Ruskin, John, 178, 183
Russia, 20, 79, 259, 313
sacrifice, 209–10
Sainsbury’s, 59, 61, 63, 91–2, 114, 140, 267
St Gall Plan, 294
St Modwen, 151
St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London, 128, 129, 130
St Petersburg, 313, 314
Saint-Simon, Henri de, 296
Sala dei Nove, Siena, 21–2
salination, 43, 271
salt, 33, 78–9, 164, 217, 237
Sandwell, 147–8
San Jose, California, 146
Santana Row, California, 146
Sardinia, 73
Sarson’s Vinegar, 117
Saunders, Clarence, 136
Savoy Hotel, London, 155–8, 159, 162
Saxmundham, 150
scale, issues of, 6–7, 34, 47–8, 51–2, 58–9, 61–7, 94–6, 101–2, 141–2, 159–61, 241, 269–70, 281, 297–8, 309–11, 322
Scania coast, 79
Schama, Simon, 20, 37
Scharoun, Hans, 188
Schlosser, Eric: Fast Food Nation, 236
Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich: Small is Beautiful, 49
Scotland, 68
Scott, Sir Walter, 68
sea transport, 72–5
Second World War, 40, 100, 105, 192–3, 203, 225
Section 106
agreements, 142
Seder, 207–9
Seine, River, 67, 266, 275
Semaine de Gout, La, 195
Seneca, 17, 30
Severus, Septimius, 273
sewage farms, 277–8
sewage systems, 249–50, 253, 254–9, 265–6
Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC), 286
Shaw, Richard Norman, 177
Sheffield, 141–2, 159
Shiva, Vandana, 48
shopping malls, 137–40, 145, 147
Shrove Tuesday, 126
Sicily, 71, 73
Siena, 21–2
SIIC (Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation), 286
Silver, Clinton, 194
Simmel, Georg: ‘Sociology of the Meal’, 212–13
Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle, 233, 234
sitopia, 283–324
Skye, 68
slaughter, 4, 32–4, 68, 131–3, 166–7, 176, 208–10, 222, 251
Slow City movement, 321
Slow Food Movement, 163, 195, 238, 310, 320–1
Small Holdings and Allotments Act (1908), 312
smells, food, 116–17
Smil, Vaclav, 50
Smith, Adam, 10, 87–9, 94, 97, 297
An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 87–8
Smithfield, 68, 89, 119, 130, 132, 132, 133, 148, 169
Smollett, Tobias: Humphry Clinker, 70
Snow, John, 177, 183
Socrates, 124, 217–18
Soho, 177
Soil Association, 39
soil erosion, 39, 43, 271
soil fertility, 37–9
Solomon, King, 222
Solon, 18, 220
Somerset, 91, 112
Southall High Street, London, 150–1
South Bank, London, 240
Southdale Shopping Centre, Minnesota, 138, 139, 140
South Street Seaport, New York, 110
Soviet Union, 313
Soyer, Alexis, 232
Spain, 21, 60–1, 73, 152, 194, 272
Spang, Rebecca: The Invention of the Restaurant, 230
Spectator, 229
Spurlock, Morgan: Supersize Me, 236
squeamishness, 132–3, 166–7, 175–7, 179, 260, 262–4, 267
Standing Committee on Trusts, 93
Stanford University, 102
Starbucks, 240, 241–2
Steele, Richard, 229
Stein, Rick, 3, 4
Steinbeck, John: Grapes of Wrath, 39
Steppes, 18
Stevenson, J.J., 178–9
Stow, John, 84
strawberries, 59
Streatham, London, 142
street life, 115–16, 145–6
Strong, Roy: Feast, 223
Strype, John, 253
Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung, 188
subsidies, 43, 44–5, 98
Suetonius, 221, 275
Suffolk, 39, 119
sugar, 85–6, 98
Sumerians, 13, 14, 18, 271
supermarkets, 62–3, 65, 66–7, 99–100, 111–14, 136–7, 140–5, 147, 149, 152, 163, 165, 269 see also names of supermarkets
supplying the city, 53–102
Surrey, 58, 120
Swift, Jonathan, 229
Switzerland, 92
table, at, 201–46
table manners, 214–16, 217–20
Tacitus, 17, 78, 83
Taco Bell, 243
T & S, 113
Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro: In Praise of Shadows, 189–90
Tate & Lyle, 98
Tate Modern, 109
Taut, Bruno, 186, 188
taverns, 226–8
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Taylor, Frederick, 184
Taylorism, 184
Terra Madre conference (2006), 195
terroir, 58, 59, 309, 321–2
Tesco, 58, 62, 65, 94, 112–13, 113–14, 140, 142, 143, 144, 147, 150
Teutonic myths, 17
Texas, 297
Thailand, 43, 66
Thames, River, 69, 84, 203, 249, 250, 254, 257, 258
Thames Embankment, 248, 258, 278
Thames Gateway, 319
Thamesmead, 249
Thatcher, Margaret, 152
Thebes: Ramesseum, 76, 77
Thesmophoria, 15
Thomas, Keith: Man and the Natural World, 24–5
Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford, 180–1
Thompson, Tommy, 102
Thoreau, Henry David, 35, 37
Walden, or Life in the Woods, 35
Three Gorges Dam, 290
Thünen, Johann Heinrich von, 91
The Isolated State, 71–2
Tiber, River, 75, 255
Tiberius, Emperor, 78
Tigris, River, 14
Titus (son of Emperor Vespasian), 275
Todd, Rebecca, 155, 156
Tolworth, 143
Tom King’s coffee shop, London, 129
Tottenham, London, 280
Tours, monastery of, 21
Townshend, Charles ‘Turnip’, 25
Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS), 48
traiteurs, 230–1
Trajan, Emperor, 75
Transition Town Totnes (TTT), 323
Transition Towns programme, 323
Treswell, Ralph, 227
Trimalchio, 221
TRIPS (Trade Related Property Rights Agreement), 48
True Levellers (Diggers), 294–5
Tunisia, 73
Turin: Terra Madre conference (2006), 195
Tyler, Wat, 130
UK see Britain/UK/England Union Stockyards, Chicago, 34
United Dairies, 93, 94
United Nations (UN), 8, 9, 95
Food and Agriculture Organisation, 8–9, 98, 101
United States see America
Unwin, Raymond, 302
Upton Park, 151
Ur, 13, 167, 271
urban agriculture, 311–16
urbanisation, 8, 9–10, 290
Urban Task Force, 319
Uruk, 13–14, 271
‘use by’ dates, 262
USA see America
US Environmental Protection Agency, 48
US Senate, 97
US Soil Conservation Service, 39
US Supreme Court, 47
US Trade Office, 97
utopianism, 291–307, 318, 320, 321
Varro, 19, 69
vegetarianism, 175–6
Vegetarian Society, 175–6
Venice, 73, 79, 80
Versailles, 30, 173, 223
Vertical Farm Project, 314–15
Vespasian, Emperor, 275
Vesta, 194
Vestal Virgins, 15
Via Campesina, La, 311
Victoria, Queen, 92, 232, 250
Vienna, 279–80
Viljoen, André, 314
Villa Stein-de Monzie, 189, 189
Ville Contemporaine, 302–3, 303
Ville Radieuse, 303
Villette, Charles de la, 223
Visser, Margaret, 215
Vistula, River, 79
Vitellius, Emperor, 221
Vlasic, 96
Voltaire, 31
Waitrose, 163, 198, 240
Walden Pond, 35
Wal-Mart, 94–5, 96, 97 see also Asda Wal-Mart
Walworth, Sir William, 130
Wapping, London, 116–17
Ward, Ned, 169
Ware, 84
Warwick, University of, 147
waste, 247–81
Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), 261
water, 9, 14, 60–61, 177, 253, 258–9, 271, 272, 285
West End, London, 133
Western International, 148
Westminster, 84
What’s Really in Your Christmas Dinner (TV programme), 3–4, 5
Whig Party, 26
White Castle, 234, 235
Whole Foods Market, 268
Wigley, Mark, 188
Wilde, Oscar, 214
wilderness, 35–7
Will (chemist), 256, 259
William the Conqueror, 20
Will’s coffee house, London, 228–9
Windsor Forest, 203
Winstanley, Gerrard, 294–5
Wood, Grant: American Gothic, 190–1
woods see forest Woolley, Sir Leonard, 167
World Health Organisation, 41
World Trade Organisation: Agreement on Agriculture, 97
Wotan, 17
WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), 261
Wren, Sir Christopher, 252, 258
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 303–5, 318, 319
The Disappearing City, 304
The Living City, 304–5
Wright, Henry 192–3
Wycherley, R.E., 124
Yo! Sushi, 240
Yorke, F.R.S.: The Modern House, 188
Yosemite Valley, 36, 36–7
Young, Arthur, 28, 50
Annals of Agriculture, 28
Zagreb trade fair (1957), 193
Zeus, 16, 213–14
Zhenhua Xie, 290
Zola, Émile, 35, 131
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