"You look a little shy: let me introduce you to that leg of mutton," said the Red Queen. "Alice --Mutton: Mutton --Alice." The leg of mutton got up in the dish and made a little bow to Alice, and Alice returned the bow, not knowing whether to be frightened or amused.

2016年7月2日 · The leg of mutton got up in a dish and made a little bow to Alice, who looked at it rather anxiously. Carroll’s creations are suffused with dietary anxiety. The looking-glass queens who refuse to eat what one has been formally ‘introduced to’ painstakingly (almost purposefully) present themselves to every item on the menu.

2024年2月20日 · Suet is a common ingredient in many traditional British recipes including Christmas pudding and dumplings. This fat is usually taken from around the kidneys and loin areas of beef, lamb or mutton. Alice bring it up in chapter 5 while reciting ‘You are old, Father William’ to the blue caterpillar:

Alice – Mutton: Mutton – Alice” (TTLG 234). The rule of jam, as it enforces the propriety of the upper class, dictates that Alice cannot eat the mutton if she wants to retain the proper nature of her queen-ship.

2004年10月9日 · In a world where inanimate objects are living creatures, a dinner party is rather hard to arrange. Once Alice has been introduced to the leg of mutton, it would be rude for her to carve it up and serve it!

‘Alice—Mutton; Mutton—Alice.’ The leg of mutton got up in the dish and made a little bow to Alice; and Alice returned the bow, not knowing whether to be frightened or amused. ‘May I give you a slice?’ she said, taking up the knife and fork, and looking from one Queen to the other.

2010年7月18日 · Throughout the paper we draw on this notion of foodsensing, in conjunction with empirical material taken from forty-eight focus group discussions conducted across seven European countries, to shed new light on the ways in which farm animals are made to matter (and not matter) within food consumption practices.

2010年3月19日 · "Alice — Mutton: Mutton — Alice": Parodies of Protocol in Through the Looking Glass Prejudice and Perception in Wonderland Class in the Garden of Live Flowers

Images of English food, widely spread throughout Carroll’s books, raise multiple questions on the rela-tionship between food and culture as well on food cultural specicities. This chapter examines how the appropriation of Carroll’s ways of ‘playing with food’ manifests itself in two very different cultures, American and Russian.

'You look a little shy: let me introduce you to that leg of mutton,' said the Red Queen. Alice-Mutton: Mutton-Alice'. The leg of mutton got up in the dish and made a little bow to Alice, and Alice returned the bow, not knowing whether to be frightened or amused.