From the Soil : hunger, haute cuisine and food production. / Hampson, Robert.
In: Last Post, Vol. 5, 2, 06.02.2022, p. 28-46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From the Soil : hunger, haute cuisine and food production. / Hampson, Robert.
In: Last Post, Vol. 5, 2, 06.02.2022, p. 28-46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - From the Soil
T2 - hunger, haute cuisine and food production
AU - Hampson, Robert
PY - 2022/2/6
Y1 - 2022/2/6
N2 - The essay begins with Ford's marriage to Elsie Martindale and their frugal life in Romney Marsh. It discusses Ford's 'peasant biographies' and their focus on mushroom catsup and the subsistence level rural economy. This provides a context for a reading of and Ford's poem 'From the Soil (Two Monologues), whose two parts give voice to the Field Labourer and the Small Farmer. These early works (and the rural economy of Kent) are discussed in relation to the Swing Riots of 1830, the 1795 Poor Law, the Berkshire Bread Act, and the Union Workhouse. The second part of the essay considers Ford's life at Cap Brun in the 1930s: a frugal life revolving around kitchen gardening, writing and cooking. It includes a reading of Ford's poem 'L'Oubli - Temps de Secheresse' in this context to show its celebration of vegetable gardening but also to bring out the desperation occasioned by the drought. .
AB - The essay begins with Ford's marriage to Elsie Martindale and their frugal life in Romney Marsh. It discusses Ford's 'peasant biographies' and their focus on mushroom catsup and the subsistence level rural economy. This provides a context for a reading of and Ford's poem 'From the Soil (Two Monologues), whose two parts give voice to the Field Labourer and the Small Farmer. These early works (and the rural economy of Kent) are discussed in relation to the Swing Riots of 1830, the 1795 Poor Law, the Berkshire Bread Act, and the Union Workhouse. The second part of the essay considers Ford's life at Cap Brun in the 1930s: a frugal life revolving around kitchen gardening, writing and cooking. It includes a reading of Ford's poem 'L'Oubli - Temps de Secheresse' in this context to show its celebration of vegetable gardening but also to bring out the desperation occasioned by the drought. .
KW - Ford Madox Ford
KW - Food
KW - peasant biographies
KW - Return to Yesterday
KW - mushroom catsup
KW - subsistence level
KW - rural economy
KW - frugality
KW - estovers
KW - labour
KW - From the Soil (Two Monologues)
KW - Field Labourer
KW - Small Farmer
KW - Berkshire Bread Act
KW - Poor Law
KW - Union Workhouse
KW - Swing Riots
KW - Captain Swing
KW - rural poverty
KW - L'oubl - Temps de Secheresse
KW - Provence
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 28
EP - 46
JO - Last Post
JF - Last Post
SN - 2631-9772
M1 - 2
ER -