Intro -- Contents -- Authors in this volume -- Food, Drink and Identity in Europe: Consumption and the Construction of Local, National and Cosmopolitan Culture -- Food, Phagophobia and English National Identity -- From Whiskey to Famine: Food and Intercultural Encounters in Irish History -- Diet and Modernization in The Netherlands During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Hitting the Bar: Alcohol, Football Identities and Global Flows in Norway -- 'Social Wine': Ethnic Identity and Wine Consumption in the Basque Diaspora in Barcelona (Spain) -- Journeys Through 'Ingestible Topography': Socializing the 'Situated Eater' in France -- The Quest for Quality: Food and the Notion of 'Trust' in the Gers Area in France -- Food Fights at the EU Table: The Gastronomic Assertion of Italian Distinctiveness -- Food, National Identity, and Emergent Europeanness at the European Space Agency.

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly examining the importance of consumption to changing notions of local, regional, national and supranational identity in Europe. As part of this interest, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and others have paid particular attention to the roles which food and drink have played in the construction of local, regional and national identity in Europe. This volume provides the first multidisciplinary look at the contributions which food and alcohol make to contemporary European identities, including the part they play in processes of European integration and Europeanization. It provides theoretically informed ethnographic and historical case studies of transformations and continuity in social and cultural patterns in the production and consumption of European foods and drinks, in order to explore how eating and drinking have helped to construct various local, regional and national identities in Europe. Of particular note in this volume is its attention to how food and drink intersect with recent attempts to foster greater European integration, in part through the recognition and support of common and diverse European cultures and identities.

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