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Paper in Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

The paper "The Queen's Coffee and Casanova's Chocolate: The Early Modern Breakfast in France" (191-208) appears in the following work:

Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900 by Tamara S. Wagner and Narin Hassan, Lexington Books (March 28, 2007)

Breakfast, for its very marginality, has proven a particularly fruitful point of entry into a truly intra- as well as interdisciplinary inquiry into the representations of food. When it is visible or even discussed in fiction, is the symbolic potential of breakfast as the first meal of the day, served at so many different hours of the morning (as a notoriously flexible and extendable time of day in tin itself), per definition different from that of other meals? What can this tell us about the function of consumption in fiction more generally? How did cultural discoures of "the long nineteent h century" affect representation of consumption and not only of breakfasts? The initial discussion of these and related questions ont he 18C-List Server in the spring of 2003 was initiated by Jim Chevallier, whose essay on the cultural and social history of breakfast in eighteenth-century Europe now forms an important contribution to this collection.
from the preface (vii-viii)

Reviews

The following are available on Project Muse, for those who have access:

Libraries & the Cultural Record - Volume 43, Number 2, 2008, pp. 242-244

Today the ubiquity of the printed word -- on cards, cups, T-shirts, well beyond the sphere of literature -- seems almost like that of grass or leaves, a natural phenomenon. And yet mass printing and the social, political, and other developments resulting from it have all grown from the work of one man, working in the midvalley of the Rhine within a few short years: "To the degree that we can reconstitute the facts, Gutenberg . . . began to print in Mainz, starting...

Libraries & Culture - Volume 40, Number 1, Winter 2005, pp. 97-98

This is largely a book about widows - not only before the French Revolution, when women were limited to taking over a deceased husband's business, but often after as well. The brief (nineteen pages) but useful introduction paints a poignant picture of aged women requesting licenses to open bookstores only because they had no other means of support. Before and after the...

Libraries & Culture - Volume 40, Number 1, Winter 2005, pp. 98-100

Despite a decidedly plain cover, this somewhat sedate collection might well have found a wide audience for one simple reason: it includes a rare reading from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien himself. Brief as it is, it captures both his evident delight in storytelling and the distinct...

Libraries & Culture - Volume 38, Number 4, Fall 2003, pp. 412-413

Fr?d?ric Barbier, a director of research at France's National Center of Scientific Research (best known by its French acronym: CNRS), has written a number of books and articles on books,...

Anthologized Monologues

Professor Gerald Lee Ratliff has included two monologues from this site (Sister Santa (see below) and Groaning up) - along with works by Chris Durang, Wendy Wasserstein, and Arthur Miller - in Millenium Monologs:

Another brief but entertaining script that asks the ultimate philosophical question, "What's so great about growing up?" This character has an amusing point of view and offers an ingenious response to the age-old question.
(229)

And Sister Santa yet again in Young Women's Monologs from Contemporary Plays:

In this dark parody of the Yuletide hero Santa Claus, Sister Santa is a feisty and sour holiday elf.
(203)

Photographs in The Wines of Chablis and the Yonne

The Wines of Chablis and the Yonne by Rosemary George, Sotheby's; 2007 edition (October 1984)

Jim Chevallier deserves special thanks for giving up a weekend in November, when Chablis is cold and grey, to photograph growers in their even colder cellars.
(Acknowledgements)

Broadcasts on WCAS 740 AM, WBZ-FM and WBUR-FM

In another life, as a radio announcer/producer in the Boston/Cambridge area.

WBZ-FM: “The Boston Folk Scene” (public affairs show)

WBUR-FM: “The Folk Show” (eclectic traditional and modern folk mix)

for NPR (national distribution): “The Eistedfodd” (documentary on folk festival)

WCAS:

“Live At Passim's” (acoustic live broadcast from Passim's coffeehouse; similar to MTV's “Unplugged”; acts included Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, Tom Waits, Ry Cooder and Jimmy Buffett.)

Produced several live broadcasts, including

• “Bravo Boston” (live jazz broadcasts from Copley Square)

• Cambridge River Festival (live broadcast)

Awards:

BHV (Paris) Concours Photo 1981 – Third Prize (photography)

Asia Society Haiku Contest 1987 – Runner-Up (poetry)