Damned dinner: eating in the wilderness of hell

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Acknowledgments

Many thanks to my colleague, Willa Zhen, who generously offered comments, and Greg de St. Maurice and the Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto in allowing me to workshop this paper.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. In an interview with the New York Times, Coco said, “from the time I was very small, my mother stuffed me with food so I was always fat. But what else can you be when you grow up in an Italian household where there’s spaghetti on the table every night of the year?”.

2. Elliot’s version was more inclusive than any other edition: “After the desert [sic], the Jews and Turks brought coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, aqua vitae, liquors, and opium” (183) but he makes no comment about avenging the atrocities until later in the text.

3. Issues of political economy and national destiny would be realized through “The Boston Associates” and the burgeoning New England textile industry.

4. Tailors were important in sixteenth-century Spain, as clothes became a way that those who were gaining economic power gained social power by dressing like aristocrats. The intertwined issue of economics and clothing would again surface during the first phase of the industrial revolution.

5. Some numbers may be approximate due to numbers fluctuating on screen.