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Feeding France - New Sciences of Food, 1760-1815 (Paperback)
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Feeding France - New Sciences of Food, 1760-1815 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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Feeding France is the first comprehensive study of the French food
industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789.
Though the history of gastronomy and the restaurant have been
explored by scholars, few are aware that France was also one of the
first nations to produce industrial foods. In this time of
political and social upheaval, chemists managed to succeed both as
public food experts and as industrial food manufacturers. This book
explores the intersection between knowledge, practice and commerce
which made this new food expertise possible, and the institutional
and experimental culture which housed it. Ranging from the
exigencies of Old Regime bread-making to the industrial showcasing
of gelatine manufacture, E. C. Spary rewrites the history of the
French relationship with food to show that industrialisation and
patrimonialism were intimately intertwined.
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