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Using Household Accounts As Evidence of Food Consumption: Perspectives From Early Modern Ireland (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlie Taverner. Susan Flavin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Records of household management are well known to historians of consumption and offer rich evidence of what people actually ate in the past. Though their survival is erratic in early modern Europe, several examples exist from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland. This paper introduces the different accounts...