Food in Nineteenth-Century Literature | Mary Titus (essay date 1997)
Mary Titus (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Titus, Mary. “The Dining Room Door Swings Both Ways: Food, Race, and Domestic Space in the Nineteenth-Century South.” In Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson, pp. 243-56. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
[In the following essay, Titus studies representations of foodways and dining rituals on the antebellum plantation.]
Oaklands was famous for many things: its fine light-bread, its cinnamon cakes, its beat biscuit, its fricasseed chicken, its butter and cream, its wine-sauces, its plum-puddings, its fine horses, its beautiful meadows, its sloping green hills, and last, but not least, its refined and agreeable society.
—Letitia Burwell, A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War
Letitia Burwell's easy movement from cuisine to company has not lost its appeal. One hundred...
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