Since the Annales School started to investigate the history of food in the 1960s, institutional diets have been an important field of research. The history of food encountered the general source problem of the history of everyday life of the lower, often illiterate, classes, as they have left hardly any written sources. Even more, food is highly perishable, so that it leaves nothing as a source itself. In contrast to this, institutions kept books registering the expenses and consumption of food, and can be used to access the history of food. This article presents a different view of institutional food. It shows that prison food does not just mirror the general developments of the food of the people, as the Annalistes had hoped for. Instead, it shows that the dietetic order in prison described and expressed the social, political, and judicial concepts of the day, as well as concepts of the body. In addition, it shows that the dietetic order resulted from multiple negotiations of the various actors involved, including those in law, administration, science, and medicine, and last but not least, the public. Using the example of Prussia, this article investigates changes in prison food standards and cross-checks this with quantitative developments as well as with the personal experiences of prisoners from 1700 to 1914.

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食品的技术政治

自从年鉴学派在 1960 年代开始调查食物的历史以来，机构饮食一直是一个重要的研究领域。食品史遇到了下层（通常是文盲）日常生活史的一般来源问题，因为他们几乎没有留下任何书面资料。更重要的是，食物极易腐烂，因此它本身没有任何来源。与此相反，机构保留记录食品费用和消费的书籍，可用于获取食品的历史。本文对机构食品提出了不同的看法。它表明监狱的食物不仅仅反映了人们食物的总体发展，正如年鉴所希望的那样。相反，它表明监狱中的饮食秩序描述和表达了社会、政治、和当时的司法概念，以及身体的概念。此外，它表明饮食秩序是由相关各方的多次谈判产生的，包括法律、行政、科学和医学，最后但并非最不重要的，公众。本文以普鲁士为例，调查监狱食品标准的变化，并与定量发展以及 1700 年至 1914 年间囚犯的个人经历进行交叉检验。