Contemporary British History Pub Date : 2021-05-19 , DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2021.1925549 Joanne Hollows
ABSTRACT
The article demonstrates how food contributed to the Europeanisation of British culture between 1960 and 1975, the period leading up to the 1975 Referendum on membership of the European Community. The analysis identifies the meanings and values associated with Europe in cooking columns in two British broadsheet newspapers, TheTimes and the Observer, and examines how people were encouraged to make identifications with Europe. However, the article demonstrates how the meanings associated with Europe were not monolithic and were inflected by class and gender. In particular, continental culinary practices were associated with the tastes and dispositions of emergent new middle-class formations. More generally, the analysis demonstrates how these representations of European food offered middle-class people ways to experiment with feeling European in their everyday lives. In a Brexit context in which much research has asked why British people rejected Europe, the article seeks to contribute to a parallel history of how so many other British people came to identify as European through engagements with popular culture.
中文翻译:
对青椒的热情:战后英国饮食文化的欧洲化,1960-1975
摘要
这篇文章展示了食物如何在 1960 年至 1975 年期间对英国文化的欧洲化做出了贡献,该时期是 1975 年关于加入欧洲共同体的公投之前的时期。该分析确定了英国两大报纸《泰晤士报》和《观察家报》的烹饪专栏中与欧洲相关的意义和价值观,并研究如何鼓励人们认同欧洲。然而,这篇文章展示了与欧洲相关的意义如何不是单一的,而是受阶级和性别的影响。特别是,大陆烹饪实践与新兴的新中产阶级的口味和性格有关。更一般地说,分析表明这些欧洲食物的表现如何为中产阶级提供了在日常生活中体验欧洲人的方式。在英国脱欧的背景下,许多研究都询问了英国人为什么拒绝欧洲,这篇文章试图为一个平行的历史做出贡献,即如此多的其他英国人如何通过与流行文化的接触而被认同为欧洲人。