Primary Sources
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new window AM Explorer is a cross-collection search of the entire corpus of Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage material in subjects including Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, and War and Conflict.
- Food and Drink in History (AM Explorer) From feast to famine, explore primary source material documenting the story of food and drink throughout history. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production.
- Food and Drink in Africa: Cuisines of the Grain Fields and Gardens (Food and Drink in History, AM Explorer) It is still quite rare to find a mention of gastronomy or culinary practices — of ingredients, dishes, combinations of taste, and meals prepared and shared by ordinary people — in relation to African communities, especially rural ones. Apart from a few exceptions (Harris 1998; McCann 2009), Africa is still today perceived as being the missing course in the global banquet of foods and drinks.
- Global and Ethnic Cuisines (Food and Drink in History) This theme encompasses cuisines from outside Britain and the United States and includes cookbooks published for a home readership – those that have indigenous recipes or encourage the use of local ingredients and produce – as well as those intended to introduce global cuisines to a new market. These documents give an insight into the culinary lives of a range of ethnic and religious groups from all around the globe, as they migrate, evolve, meet with others and give rise to new
Head, African Studies Library
Beth Restrick
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African Studies Library
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Subjects: African Studies