What is it about?
Discusses what we can learn by studying food in history, especially in France.
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Why is it important?
Although the primacy of French culture has been challenged during the last half century, France maintains a pre-eminent role in the lnaguage of food and the culinary.
Perspectives
This article, co-authored with Erica Peters, introduces several excellent studies of French food history that we co-edited in a special issue of French Historical Studies.
Prof Bertram M Gordon
Mills College
It was a joy and an honor to work on these articles and help the writers contribute such creative pieces to the growing field of food studies.
Prof. Erica J Peters
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This page is a summary of: Introduction, French Historical Studies, January 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2842530.
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