HI Rhona,
You may already be familiar with Catriona Clear's great book Women of
the House, in which she uses both oral testimony and archival sources
such as advice columns and cookbooks.
Louise Ryan
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Subject: Irish food culture
Dear fellow list members,
I'm doing research on Canadian food culture and am interested to know
who might be doing similar or related work in Ireland. I'm currently
exploring the relationship between food incentives such as cookbooks,
advice columns, government pamphlets and advertisements, etc., and the
actual adoption and appropriation of these in the home since the second
half of the twentieth century. I'm also curious about the
implementation of new foods in the Postwar era, and on how domestic
design and architecture adapted and influenced eating practices in the
family. It would be fascinating to know if anyone is studying these or
similar aspects of Irish culture, especially given what seems to me to
be a significant food renaissance in Ireland over the past decade or so.
I'd also appreciate hearing about any archival material that seems
potentially rich in this area.
Many thanks,
Rhona Richman Kenneally
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Rhona Richman Kenneally, Ph.D. (Architecture)
Dept. of Design and Computation Arts
Concordia University, Montreal
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