Martha Carlin
Articles:
“Marketers adapt menus to eat-what-I-want-when-I-want trend” (Bruce Horovitz, USA Today, 22 November 2011)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2011-11-21/weird-eating/51338542/1
Includes an embedded 2:17 min. video profiling a junior at UC Berkeley with a double major and a 30-hour-per-week job
whose non-traditional eating patterns are becoming the new normal for students: http://bcove.me/44yrcyzr
A brief history of the cookbook (“Pluck a flamingo: What cookbooks really teach us,” The Economist, 18 December 2008):
http://www.economist.com/node/12795620
“The science of menu layout” (Zachary Minot, NewYork Magazine, 28 September 2010):
http://cookingdistrict.com/cd/general.nsf/blogbydate/852578CF000187B9852577AC0054B37D?opendocument
(This article is also available at: http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/62498/ )
Videos:
“Food Fight” (2006, 5:30 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-yldqNkGfo
List of battles: http://www.touristpictures.com/foodfight/index.htm
Combatant identity cheat sheet: http://www.touristpictures.com/foodfight/cheat.htm
“Food, Inc.” (film trailer, 2009, 3:31 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQVll-MP3I
What is being sold in your supermarket? How is is being misrepresented to consumers?
Commercial for Indian spices (2:03 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L37B369GSVA&feature=related
Young couple . . . new house . . . bottled spices . . .?
Exquisite German flour commercial (1:30 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C253D0PrNiE&feature=related
What is the message of the flour-drawn art?
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate (0:40 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKTMkHFDS8
Combine chocolate with cricket and you get . . . this
“Food Ad Tricks” (from Buy Me That! produced by Consumer Reports© Television, 1989?, 2:59 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUjz_eiIX8k
A food stylist shows how to style a hamburger to look good on TV
Indian ad for TRS coconut milk (Crossfire films, 2008?, 0:36 min.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhrs6ZdzfJI
What is this ad trying to convey to viewers?
“Tampopo” (Japanese film, 1985):
(Trailer; 1:52 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_KctoG0bAE
(The ramen master, 1:53 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvy-NqioJpc
(French restaurant scene, 4:15 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcMaZLiqVpI
“Goodfellas” (1990):
Dinner in prison, 1973 (2:31 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztx8qfoNu0
Meal at Tommy’s mother’s house (played by Martin Scorsese’s mother, Catherine; 3:21 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eVqdnDk02Y
King of Queens, “Hungry Man” clip (1:13 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unXKYK0uRJ8
Japanese Food Culture: BENTO (3:20) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qkSh5ylLDQ&feature=related
How to make bento (6:31): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_hbPLsZvvo
Invention of the original Swanson TV Dinner tray (3:30 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlkO8LIWrs
Jell-O Salad Makes the Meal! (1:17 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP4VvxFEzaM
Betty Crocker Cake Mix (1:35 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJ2UrrF2Rk
Quizzes:
Mesolithic Food Quiz: Could you survive today as a hunter-gatherer?
http://web.archive.org/web/20071112111251/museums.ncl.ac.uk/flint/foodquiz.html
Take a medieval food quiz here, and another medieval food quiz here
Medieval Food and Eating Images:
St. Louis sends food to paupers’ table (French, from Life of St. Louis, 14th cent.)
from the Luttrell Psalter (England, c. 1325-35):
the cooks
kitchen boys turning the spit
serving up
detail of servant
the Luttrells at table
detail of women eating
washing hands at table, from the ‘Vows of the Peacock’ (c. 1300-1325)
Depictions of food preparation, service, and eating: from the Maciejowski Bible (made in Paris for Louis IX, 1244 x 1254):
King David hosts a feast
detail: tableware
detail: panter slicing bread
detail: drinking cup
detail: carved table-end
what’s under the tablecloth?
The Duc du Berry at table, from Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: January (1412-16):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Limbourg_brothers_-_Les_tr%C3%A8s_riches_heures_du_Duc_de_Berry_-_January_%28detail%29_-_WGA13017.jpg
