Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (59 page)

Acropolis, Athens, 123

Action Aid, 97

Addison, Joseph, 229

Advent, 210

Aegisthus, 214

Agamemnon, 214

Agora, Athens, 122, 123–5, 220

agribusiness, 43, 47–50, 59, 95–9

agriculture
see
farming/agriculture

Agriculture Act (1947), 40

Agricultural Revolution, 25

Agrippa, Marcus, 255, 266

Agro Guard, 102

Ahwahneechee Indians, 37

Aldgate, 119

Alexander, Christopher, 310

Alexandria, 75

Amazonian rainforest, 10, 43

America

American Home, The
, 191

Amish, 295

‘Amsterdam Fleet’, 80

Amstutz, Dan, 97

Anatolia, 12, 13

animals
see
livestock

Ancora soup, 191

annona
, 77–8

Antwerp, 73

Appalachian Mountains, 32

apples, 55–7, 60, 267

Apple Day, 55

Apulia, 67

Arcadia, 293

Arctic Circle, 7

Areopagoi, 18

Argentina, 43

Aristides, 74

Aristotle, 124–5, 293

Arno, River, 71

Arthur, King, 220

Arts and Crafts, 302

Arup, 286, 287, 289

Arup, Ove, 286

Asda Wal-Mart, 141–2, 151

Ashbee, Charles Robert, 299

Ashmead’s Kernel apple, 57, 60

Asia, 47, 79, 85, 239

Assurnassipal, King of Assyria, 222

Athenaeus, 217

Athens, 15, 16, 18, 72–3, 122, 123–5, 171, 217–18, 220, 271

Attlee government, 40

Augé, Marc, 147

Augustine, St, 293

Augustus, Emperor, 19, 77–8

Austria, 279–80

 

Bakhtin, Mikhail:
Rabelais and His World
, 126

Balfour, Lady Eve, 39

Balkans, 67, 79

Baltic, 78–80, 84

Baltimore, 110

bananas, 95, 101

Banham, Reyner:
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
, 188

Banzhaf, John, 245

Barbary, 83

Barber, Cesar, 236, 245

Barcelona, 152

Barking, 68–9

Bay of Naples, 75

Bazalgette, Joseph, 257, 258, 266

BBC, 3, 4, 114, 165

BDP (Building Design Partnership), 143

Beckton, 257

Bedford, 4th Earl of, 128

Bedford, 6th Duke of, 129

Bedford Park, 177

Beecher, Catherine, 182–3, 190

Beeton, Isabella:
Book of Household Management
, 174

Behrens, Peter, 188

Belgrand, Eugène, 266, 276

Benedict, St, 293, 302

Bentham, Jeremy, 183, 274

Berlin, 277–8

Bermondsey, London, 117

‘Betty Crocker’, 191, 198

Betty Crocker cake mixtures, 192

Bible, 16

Bicester, 114

Billingsgate, 69, 84, 85, 116, 120

biofuels, 100–1

Birds Eye, 194

Birmingham, 90

Bismarck, Otto von, 32

Bisto adverts, 171

Black Death, 20

Blackfriars, London, 253

Black Sea, 72, 79

Black Sigatoka fungus, 101

Blanc, Raymond, 3–4

Bloomsbury, 240

Bluewater, 145

Blythman, Joanna, 63, 141, 142

Bohn, Katrin, 314

Bologna, 22, 71

Booth, Charles:
Life and Labour of the People in London
, 92–3

Boquería, La (Mercat de la Boquería), Barcelona, 152

Borneo, 43

Borough Market, 105–11, 120, 148, 152

Bosporus, 72

Boston, 32, 109–10

Boston Redevelopment Authority, 109

Boswell, James, 153

Boucher, François, 30

Bourdain, Anthony, 158

Bourne, Tom, 106–7

Bradford, 322

Bramah, Joseph, 253

Bramley apples, 56, 58

Braudel, Fernand, 23, 79

Braunfels, Wolfgang, 294

Brazil, 10, 23, 43

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 201, 209, 210, 213, 220, 242

Britain/UK/England

British Retail Consortium, 97–8

Brixton, London, 150

Broadacre City, 304, 319

Brogdale, 55–8, 60

Brogdale Horticultural Trust, 58

Bronze Age, 271

Bruegel, Pieter:
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
,
127
, 127

Bruges, 79

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 258

Brunswick Centre, London, 240

BSE, 42

Building Design Partnership (BDP), 143

Bush, President George W., 97, 100–1

business lunch, 226–30

Button’s coffee house, London, 229

 

Cabet, Etienne, 297

Cabot, John, 85

Cadbury’s, 194, 300

Caesar, Julius, 17, 77

Cairo, 209–10

California, 92, 146

Campbell’s soup, 191

CAP (Common Agricultural Policy), 42

Carême, Antonin, 232

Cargill, 97

Caribbean, 85, 95

Carl, Ernst Ludwig, 23

Carluccio’s, 240

Carnival, 125–8, 130

Carrefour, 144

Carson, Rachel:
Silent Spring
, 41

Carthage, 73

Cassiodorus, 76

Castiglione, Baldassare:
Il Libro del Cortegiano
, 218

Çatalhöyük, 13

cattle, 8–9, 34, 67–8, 89, 96, 101–2, 119, 131–3

Cavendish bananas, 101

Celts, 17

Century
magazine, 36

Ceylon, 136

Chadwick, Edwin, 253–4, 255, 276–7

Chamberlain, Joseph, 312

Champagne, 81

Champ de Mars, Paris, 223

Charlemagne, King, 21, 294

Charles, Prince, 58

Charles I, King, 203

Charles II, King, 121

Châtillon-Plessis, 175

Cheapside, London, 119, 120, 121, 133

Cheshire cheese, 106

Chesterton, G.K.: ‘The Song Against Grocers’, 134

Chicago, 34, 233

Chicago Tribune
, 34

chicken, 5–6, 51, 162–3, 312

Child, Sir Josiah, 85

children, 215–17

China, 9–10, 40, 89, 162, 256, 257, 274, 285–90, 309

Chipping Camden, 299

Chiquita, 101

Chiswick, London, 57, 116

Chongming Island, 286–7

Chongqing, 290

Christians/Christianity, 210, 293–4

Christmas, 3–4, 210

Cicero, 77

Cincinnati, 33–4, 275

Cittaslow (Slow Cities), 321

City of London,
118
(map), 118–19, 228

Clarke, Peter, 59–60, 61

Claudius, Emperor, 75

Clichy, 276, 277

Cloaca Maxima, Rome, 255

Clodius, 77, 78

Cobbett, William, 28–9, 50, 88

Cobham, Surrey, 294

Coca-Cola, 243

coffee houses, 228–30

Colbert, Pastor Don, 245

Collings, Jesse, 312

Columbus, Christopher, 85

Comice pears, 56–7

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), 42

common land, loss of, 25–7

Common Market, 42

communes, Italian, 21–2

companionship, 211–14

Competition Bill, 97–8

Competition Commission, 114

Comté cheese, 107

ConAgra Foods, 94

Concord, Massachusetts, 35

Consolidated Commission of Sewers, 254, 256

Constable, John, 45–6

Constantinople, 79, 81

Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULs), 314

convenience foods, 158–62, 163–4, 191–2, 194, 195

cooking, 155–71, 172–4, 179–80, 181, 182, 187, 190, 191, 193–4, 194–5, 197, 198–200

cookshops, public, 167–9

Cooper, Derek, 72

Corbusier
see
Le Corbusier

Cornhill, London, 119, 121, 228

Corn Laws, 32

Corporation of London, 148

Costa Rica, 95

countryside, attitudes to, 7, 8, 24–5, 44–6

Countryside Agency, 308

Covent Garden, London, 89, 108, 109, 110, 129, 155, 228, 252

Coventry, 142, 251

cows
see
cattle

Cox apples, 56, 58, 267

CPULs (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes), 314

Cranbrook, Lady Caroline, 150

Crick, 64–5, 66, 67

Crisis, (charity), 269

Critser, Greg:
Fat Land
, 242–3

Crossness, 257