Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature. Gitanjali G. Shahani. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 204 pp. $39.95

[...]she is able to tease out new significance from Oberon's tussles with Titania over the Indian Boy, Prospero's vanishing banquet, and Oroonoko's dreadful death. A growing body of research demonstrates that metaphors based on eating were pervasive in this period; in its focus on the...

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Published in:Renaissance quarterly 2022-04, Vol.75 (1), p.254-255
Main Author: Earle, Rebecca
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coffee
Cultural differences
Food
Metaphor
Race
Religion
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Summary:[...]she is able to tease out new significance from Oberon's tussles with Titania over the Indian Boy, Prospero's vanishing banquet, and Oroonoko's dreadful death. A growing body of research demonstrates that metaphors based on eating were pervasive in this period; in its focus on the culinary language associated with racial or cultural Others, Tasting Difference makes a valuable contribution to this scholarship. Tasting Difference will be read with profit by the now-substantial community of food scholars, and by all those interested in the ways in which “outside histories” in fact form an essential part of any history of the British Isles.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1017/rqx.2022.31