Food Hawkers

Melissa Calaresu is a Fellow and Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and has written on the Grand Tour, historical and autobiographical writing, urban space, reform to revolution, and most recently, the making and eating of ice cream in eighteenth-century Naples. She is co-editor of Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (2010), New Approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800: The Power of Place (2013), and the catalogue for the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition, Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to Enlightenment (2015). Danielle van den Heuvel is Senior Lecturer in early modern European History at the University of Kent. Her publications include the award-winning Women and Entrepreneurship. Female traders in the Northern Netherlands, 1580-1815 (2007), and cover retailing, food markets, and informality in the context of the Dutch Republic and beyond.

• Contents: Introduction: food hawkers from representation to reality, Melissa Calaresu and Danielle van den Heuvel; Representations of food hawkers in ancient Rome, Claire Holleran; Quodlibets and fricassées: food in musical settings of street cries in early modern England, Deborah L. Krohn; Street cries on the frozen Thames: food hawkers at London frost fairs, 1608-1814, Ivan Day; Food, markets, and people: selling perishables in urban markets in pre-industrial Holland and England, Danielle van den Heuvel; Food selling and urban space in early modern Naples, Melissa Calaresu; The myth of la Belle Madeleine: street culture and celebrity in 19th-century Paris, Tom Stammers; The street food sector in Vietnam: serious business for women entrepreneurs, Annemarie M.F. Hiemstra; Street-food hospitality in contemporary Calcutta, Manpreet Janeja; Negotiating gendered spatial boundaries: women’s food-hawking in Penang, Malaysia, Anja Franck; Select bibliography; Index.