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Fishes with Funny French Names - The French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Fishes with Funny French Names - The French Restaurant in London from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 82
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This book tells the story of what happens when an essentially
Parisian institution travels and establishes itself in its
neighbour's capital city, bringing with it French food culture and
culinary practices. The arrival and evolution of the French
restaurant in the British capital is a tale of culinary and
cultural exchange and of continuity and change in the development
of London's dining-out culture. Although the main character of this
story is the French restaurant, this cultural history also
necessarily engages with the people who produce, purvey, purchase
and consume that food culture, in many different ways and in many
different settings, in London over a period of some one hundred and
fifty years. British references to France and to the French are
littered with associations with food, whether it is desired,
rejected, admired, loathed, envied, disdained, from the status of
haute cuisine and the restaurants and chefs associated with it to
contemporary concerns about food poverty and food waste, to dietary
habits and the politicisation of food, and at every level in
between. However, thinking about the place of the French restaurant
in London restaurant and food culture over a long time span, in
many and varied places and spaces in the capital, creates a more
nuanced picture than that which may at first seem obvious.
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