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Slow Food
, 320–1

Petronius:
Satyricon
, 221

Philadelphia, 32

Philip Morris Co. Inc. (Kraft), 94

Piazza Montanara, Rome, 121–2

Picardy, 81

Pig City project, 315–16,
317

Piggley Wiggly store, 136

pigs, 3, 17–18, 23, 33–4, 275, 280–1, 136

Pilgrim Fathers, 295

Pizza Express, 207

Place Royale (now Place des Vosges), Paris, 128

Plato, 171, 271, 291, 293, 300

Pliny the Younger, 19, 221, 254

Plunkett, Mrs H.M.:
Women, Plumbers and Doctors, or Household Sanitation
, 183–4

Pnyx Hill, Athens, 15

Poland, 67, 79–80, 144

Policy Commission on the Future of Food and Farming, 42

Political Register
, 28

politics

and dining, 220–3

and markets, 122–5

and supply, 76–8

Pompey, 78

Poole, 142

‘Poor Man Paies for All, The’, 24

Pope, Alexander, 229

Popular Housing Group, 197

Porkopolis
see
Cincinnati

Portugal, 80

Post, Emily, 218–19

Poultry, London, 119, 120

PPG6, 140, 141

PPS6, 143–4

Prato, 122

Primrose Hill, London, 241–2

Prometheus, 16

Punch
, 129

Punch (puppet), 129–30

‘Punch’s birthday’, 129–30

Puteoli, 75

 

Queenhithe, 84–5, 120

Queen’s Market, London, 151

 

railways, 31–2, 90–1, 132–3, 177, 233, 299

Ramadan, 209

Ramesseum, Thebes,
76
, 77

Ramsay, Gordon, 158

Randall, James, 96

RDCs (regional distribution centres), 64–6

ready meals, 158–62, 163–4, 192, 194, 195, 198

ready-to-cook meals, 198

Reclus, Élisée, 317

recycling, 250–51, 257, 278–81

Reform Club, 232

regional distribution centres (RDCs), 64–6

Reid, Donald, 250, 280

Paris Sewers and Sewerment
, 265

restaurants and restaurant chains, 230–6, 239–42, 243, 244–5

Retail Logistics
, 66

Richard II, King, 130, 222

Richards, Ellen, 183, 184

Richelieu, Cardinal, 128

Rick Stein’s Food Heroes Christmas Special
(TV programme), 3, 4

Riga, 79

rites, agrarian, 15–16

rivers, importance of, 14, 71, 75, 79–81, 84, 88, 120, 255

Robinson, Ann, 98

Rochester, 84

Rogers, Richard:
Cities for a Small Planet
, 319

Romans, 14, 15–16, 16–17, 19, 40, 67, 77, 83–4, 167–8, 172, 220–2
see also
Rome, ancient Romanticism, 8, 31

Rome, 22, 121–2, 195, 238

ancient, 15, 16, 17, 19, 50, 67, 73–5, 77–8, 102, 121–2, 171–2, 222, 254–5, 272–3, 275

see also
Romans

Romulus and Remus, 16

Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 37, 39

Roosevelt, President Theodore ‘Teddy’, 37

Rosny, Antoine, 231

Rossi, Aldo, 123

Rotherham, 246

Rotherhithe, 257

Rotterdam, 64

Rouse, Jim, 110, 138

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 18, 25, 30–1, 35, 175, 230, 294

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
, 30

Rowntree, Joseph, 300

Rowntree Foundation, 197

Royal Exchange, 228

Rumford, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count, 180–1

Rumford range, 180–1, 232

Rungis Market, Paris, 148

Ruskin, John, 178, 183

Russia, 20, 79, 259, 313

 

sacrifice, 209–10

Sainsbury’s, 59, 61, 63, 91–2, 114, 140, 267

St Gall Plan, 294

St Modwen, 151

St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London, 128, 129, 130

St Petersburg, 313, 314

Saint-Simon, Henri de, 296

Sala dei Nove, Siena, 21–2

salination, 43, 271

salt, 33, 78–9, 164, 217, 237

Sandwell, 147–8

San Jose, California, 146

Santana Row, California, 146

Sardinia, 73

Sarson’s Vinegar, 117

Saunders, Clarence, 136

Savoy Hotel, London, 155–8, 159, 162

Saxmundham, 150

scale, issues of, 6–7, 34, 47–8, 51–2, 58–9, 61–7, 94–6, 101–2, 141–2, 159–61, 241, 269–70, 281, 297–8, 309–11, 322

Scania coast, 79

Schama, Simon, 20, 37

Scharoun, Hans, 188

Schlosser, Eric:
Fast Food Nation
, 236

Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich:
Small is Beautiful
, 49

Scotland, 68

Scott, Sir Walter, 68

sea transport, 72–5

Second World War, 40, 100, 105, 192–3, 203, 225

Section 106

agreements, 142

Seder, 207–9

Seine, River, 67, 266, 275

Semaine de Gout, La
, 195

Seneca, 17, 30

Severus, Septimius, 273

sewage farms, 277–8

sewage systems, 249–50, 253, 254–9, 265–6

Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation (SIIC), 286

Shaw, Richard Norman, 177

Sheffield, 141–2, 159

Shiva, Vandana, 48

shopping malls, 137–40, 145, 147

Shrove Tuesday, 126

Sicily, 71, 73

Siena, 21–2

SIIC (Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation), 286

Silver, Clinton, 194

Simmel, Georg: ‘Sociology of the Meal’, 212–13

Sinclair, Upton:
The Jungle
, 233, 234

sitopia, 283–324

Skye, 68

slaughter, 4, 32–4, 68, 131–3, 166–7, 176, 208–10, 222, 251

Slow City movement, 321

Slow Food Movement, 163, 195, 238, 310, 320–1

Small Holdings and Allotments Act (1908), 312

smells, food, 116–17

Smil, Vaclav, 50

Smith, Adam, 10, 87–9, 94, 97, 297

An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
, 87–8

Smithfield, 68, 89, 119, 130,
132
, 132, 133, 148, 169

Smollett, Tobias:
Humphry Clinker
, 70

Snow, John, 177, 183

Socrates, 124, 217–18

Soho, 177

Soil Association, 39

soil erosion, 39, 43, 271

soil fertility, 37–9

Solomon, King, 222

Solon, 18, 220

Somerset, 91, 112

Southall High Street, London, 150–1

South Bank, London, 240

Southdale Shopping Centre, Minnesota, 138,
139
, 140

South Street Seaport, New York, 110

Soviet Union, 313

Soyer, Alexis, 232

Spain, 21, 60–1, 73, 152, 194, 272

Spang, Rebecca:
The Invention of the Restaurant
, 230

Spectator
, 229

Spurlock, Morgan:
Supersize Me
, 236

squeamishness, 132–3, 166–7, 175–7, 179, 260, 262–4, 267

Standing Committee on Trusts, 93

Stanford University, 102

Starbucks, 240, 241–2

Steele, Richard, 229

Stein, Rick, 3, 4

Steinbeck, John:
Grapes of Wrath
, 39

Steppes, 18

Stevenson, J.J., 178–9

Stow, John, 84

strawberries, 59

Streatham, London, 142

street life, 115–16, 145–6

Strong, Roy:
Feast
, 223

Strype, John, 253

Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung, 188

subsidies, 43, 44–5, 98

Suetonius, 221, 275

Suffolk, 39, 119

sugar, 85–6, 98

Sumerians, 13, 14, 18, 271

supermarkets, 62–3, 65, 66–7, 99–100, 111–14, 136–7, 140–5, 147, 149, 152, 163, 165, 269
see also
names of supermarkets

supplying the city, 53–102

Surrey, 58, 120

Swift, Jonathan, 229

Switzerland, 92

 

table, at, 201–46

table manners, 214–16, 217–20

Tacitus, 17, 78, 83

Taco Bell, 243

T & S, 113

Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro:
In Praise of Shadows
, 189–90

Tate & Lyle, 98

Tate Modern, 109

Taut, Bruno, 186, 188

taverns, 226–8

Taylor, Frederick, 184

Taylorism, 184

Terra Madre conference (2006), 195

terroir
, 58, 59, 309, 321–2

Tesco, 58, 62, 65, 94, 112–13, 113–14, 140, 142, 143, 144, 147, 150

Teutonic myths, 17

Texas, 297

Thailand, 43, 66

Thames, River, 69, 84, 203, 249, 250, 254, 257, 258

Thames Embankment,
248
, 258,
278

Thames Gateway, 319

Thamesmead, 249

Thatcher, Margaret, 152

Thebes:
Ramesseum, 76
, 77

Thesmophoria, 15

Thomas, Keith:
Man and the Natural World
, 24–5

Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford, 180–1

Thompson, Tommy, 102

Thoreau, Henry David, 35, 37

Walden, or Life in the Woods
, 35

Three Gorges Dam, 290

Thünen, Johann Heinrich von, 91

The Isolated State
, 71–2

Tiber, River, 75, 255

Tiberius, Emperor, 78

Tigris, River, 14

Titus (son of Emperor Vespasian), 275

Todd, Rebecca, 155, 156

Tolworth, 143

Tom King’s coffee shop, London, 129

Tottenham, London, 280

Tours, monastery of, 21

Townshend, Charles ‘Turnip’, 25

Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS), 48

traiteurs
, 230–1

Trajan, Emperor, 75

Transition Town Totnes (TTT), 323

Transition Towns programme, 323

Treswell, Ralph, 227

Trimalchio, 221

TRIPS (Trade Related Property Rights Agreement), 48

True Levellers (Diggers), 294–5

Tunisia, 73

Turin: Terra Madre conference (2006), 195

Tyler, Wat, 130

 

UK
see
Britain/UK/England Union Stockyards, Chicago, 34

United Dairies, 93, 94

United Nations (UN), 8, 9, 95

Food and Agriculture Organisation, 8–9, 98, 101

United States
see
America

Unwin, Raymond, 302

Upton Park, 151

Ur, 13, 167, 271

urban agriculture, 311–16

urbanisation, 8, 9–10, 290

Urban Task Force, 319

Uruk, 13–14, 271

‘use by’ dates, 262

USA
see
America

US Environmental Protection Agency, 48

US Senate, 97

US Soil Conservation Service, 39

US Supreme Court, 47

US Trade Office, 97

utopianism, 291–307, 318, 320, 321

 

Varro, 19, 69

vegetarianism, 175–6

Vegetarian Society, 175–6

Venice, 73, 79, 80

Versailles, 30, 173, 223

Vertical Farm Project, 314–15

Vespasian, Emperor, 275

Vesta, 194

Vestal Virgins, 15

Via Campesina, La, 311

Victoria, Queen, 92, 232, 250

Vienna, 279–80

Viljoen, André, 314

Villa Stein-de Monzie, 189,
189

Ville Contemporaine, 302–3,
303

Ville Radieuse, 303

Villette, Charles de la, 223

Visser, Margaret, 215

Vistula, River, 79

Vitellius, Emperor, 221

Vlasic, 96

Voltaire, 31

 

Waitrose, 163, 198, 240

Walden Pond, 35

Wal-Mart, 94–5, 96, 97
see also
Asda Wal-Mart

Walworth, Sir William, 130

Wapping, London, 116–17

Ward, Ned, 169

Ware, 84

Warwick, University of, 147

waste, 247–81

Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), 261

water, 9, 14, 60–61, 177, 253, 258–9, 271, 272, 285

West End, London, 133

Western International, 148

Westminster, 84

What’s Really in Your Christmas Dinner
(TV programme), 3–4, 5

Whig Party, 26

White Castle, 234,
235

Whole Foods Market, 268

Wigley, Mark, 188

Wilde, Oscar, 214

wilderness, 35–7

Will (chemist), 256, 259

William the Conqueror, 20

Will’s coffee house, London, 228–9

Windsor Forest, 203

Winstanley, Gerrard, 294–5

Wood, Grant:
American Gothic
, 190–1

woods
see
forest Woolley, Sir Leonard, 167

World Health Organisation, 41

World Trade Organisation: Agreement on Agriculture, 97

Wotan, 17

WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), 261

Wren, Sir Christopher, 252, 258

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 303–5, 318, 319

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