Ireland’s Green Larder (eBook)

The Definitive History of Irish Food and Drink

Margaret Hickey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Unbound (Verlag)
978-1-78352-526-3 (ISBN)

Infos

‘The only book on the social history of Ireland that you’ll ever need’ Richard Corrigan

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Ireland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the Ceide Fields, established a thousand years before the Pyramids were built, right up to today's thriving food scene.Rather than focusing on battles and rulers, Margaret Hickey digs down to what has formed the day-to-day life of the people. It's a glorious ramble through the centuries, drawing on diaries, letters, legal texts, ballads, government records, folklore and more. The story of how Queen Maeve died after being hit by a piece of hard cheese sits alongside a contemporary interview with one of Ireland's magnificent cheese makers, and the tale of the author's day in Clew Bay on the wild Atlantic coast, collecting the world's freshest oysters, is countered by Jonathan Swift's complaint about dubiously fresh salmon being sold on the streets of Dublin.Beautifully illustrated and dotted with recipes, there are chapters covering everything from strong tea to the Irish rituals and superstitions associated with food and drink. With a light touch and a flair for finding the most telling details, Hickey draws on years of research to bring this sweeping history brilliantly to life.

Autor

Margaret Hickey is the former Food and Drink Editor at Country Living magazine. She has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian and The Times. She is co-director of Shorelines Arts Festival in Portumna and is a regular judge at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ballads • Ballymaloe • Bee Wilson Consider the Fork The Hive • Bee Wilson Consider the Fork, The Hive, Swindled • Ceide Fields • Céide Fields • cheese • Cheese salmon oysters fishing Atlantic • Contemporary • Cookery • cooking • Cuisine food drink • Culture • Darina Allen 30 Years of Ballymaloe • Diaries • Drink • Folklore • Folklore cultural history Jonathan Swift Queen Maeve Céide Fields • Government Records • Great Famine • hand-to-mouth farming • History • Irish folklore • Irish food • Irish rituals • Irish Seed Savers Association • Legal Texts • Letters • Oliver Rowe Food for All Seasons • oysters • past customs • potatoes • Recipes • Recipes Country Life • Richard Corrigan • salmon • Social History • superstitions • Tea • tenant farmers
• ISBN-10: 1-78352-526-6 / 1783525266
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78352-526-3 / 9781783525263