Snowy Mountaineers and Soda Waters
Honolulu and Its Age of Ice Importation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12799478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Hobart (corresponding author), Hi‘ilei Julia Hobart (Northwestern University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 461-483 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-8014 • E-ISSN: 1751-7443 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15528014.2016.1208337 |
| OpenAlex | W2567289112 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In 1850, Honolulu received its first shipment of cold, clear ice for public sale. Used to chill cocktails and other refreshments, comestible coldness underwent a process of intense meaning-making that reflected the discourses concerning race and civility that played out across Hawai‘i’s growing urban environment. This article analyzes the political and social dimensions of ice’s introduction to Honolulu in order to show how taste, and particularly the taste for coldness, emerged from, responded to, and pushed back against a burgeoning American settler colonial project. It shows that before coldness became so unremarkably common in Hawai‘i, a place where water freezes only atop its three tallest mountain peaks during the coldest months of the year, the early introduction of ice cut across the deeply moralized and highly politicized foodscape of mid-nineteenth century Hawai‘i
Archaeology · Civility · Ethnology · Geography · Mountaineering · Political science · Politics · Taste · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |