{"title":"“Is Irish Stew the only kind of stew we can afford to make, mother?” The history of a recipe","authors":"D. Cashman, John Farrelly","doi":"10.1080/04308778.2021.1957420","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper traces the social, political and culinary history of Irish stew from what are its earliest iterations through to its inclusion in a recently published collection of Irish recipes. The constituent ingredients are contextualized and the emergence of oral and printed recipes tracked within a theoretical framework that gives equal importance to the political and social contexts that existed as successive recipes for the dish gained currency. The shifts in meanings and associations of the dish among different people – those who observed and commented on the Irish, and the Irish themselves – are traced, detailing its emergence from painful association with subsistence living to a confident place in the pantheon of Irish cuisine – an important part of Ireland’s intangible cultural heritage.","PeriodicalId":51989,"journal":{"name":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"81 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folk Life-Journal of Ethnological Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04308778.2021.1957420","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper traces the social, political and culinary history of Irish stew from what are its earliest iterations through to its inclusion in a recently published collection of Irish recipes. The constituent ingredients are contextualized and the emergence of oral and printed recipes tracked within a theoretical framework that gives equal importance to the political and social contexts that existed as successive recipes for the dish gained currency. The shifts in meanings and associations of the dish among different people – those who observed and commented on the Irish, and the Irish themselves – are traced, detailing its emergence from painful association with subsistence living to a confident place in the pantheon of Irish cuisine – an important part of Ireland’s intangible cultural heritage.
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Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies is a journal devoted to the study of all aspects of traditional ways of life in Great Britain and Ireland. The journal publishes original, high quality, peer-reviewed research in the form of unsolicited articles, solicited papers (which are usually selected from those read at the Society"s annual conference) and of members" papers (which are usually short reports of work in progress). Work published in Folk Life may include, for example, papers dealing with the traditional ways of life of other countries and regions, which may be compared to or contrasted with those of Great Britain and Ireland.