Nourishing the Nation

Venetia Johannes is a post-doctoral research affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. She was co-editor of The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism (Bloomsbury, 2019), and has published chapters and articles on Catalonia, food, nationalism, and heritage.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Language and Translation

Maps of Spain and Catalonia



Introduction: Nourishing Catalan Nationalism



Chapter 1. Catalan Cookbooks: Creating Catalonia through Culinary Literature

Chapter 2. The Foundational Sauces and National Dishes

Chapter 3. Catalan Cuisine in Context

Chapter 4. The Gastronomic Calendar: Seasonality, Festivity and Territory

Chapter 5. Catalan National Days and their Foods



Conclusion: Cuisine as National Identity



Glossary

References

Index