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Colonial Food in Interwar Paris - The Taste of Empire (Hardcover)
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Colonial Food in Interwar Paris - The Taste of Empire (Hardcover)
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In the wake of the First World War, in which France suffered severe
food shortages, colonial produce became an increasingly important
element of the French diet. The colonial lobby seized upon these
foodstuffs as powerful symbols of the importance of the colonial
project to the life of the French nation. But how was colonial food
really received by the French public? And what does this tell us
about the place of empire in French society? In Colonial Food in
Interwar Paris, Lauren Janes disputes the claim that empire was
central to French history and identity, arguing that the distrust
of colonial food reflected a wider disinterest in the empire. From
Indochinese rice to North African grains and tropical fruit to
curry powder, this book offers an intriguing and original challenge
to current orthodoxy about the centrality of empire to modern
France by examining the place of colonial foods in the nation's
capital.
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