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Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830

Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830

Hardcover

Cookbooks GeneralGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0807145335
ISBN13: 9780807145333
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Jan 2 2013
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French cooks began to claim central roles in defining and enforcing taste, as well as in educating their diners to changing standards. Tracing the transformation of culinary trades in France during the Revolutionary era, Jennifer J. Davis argues that the work of cultivating sensibility in food was not simply an elite matter; it was essential to the livelihood of thousands of men and women.

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