Feeding France
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Feeding France

New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Feeding France

New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Economic eaters
  12. 2 The kingdom of bread
  13. 3 The matter of nourishment
  14. 4 Health foods and the medical marketplace
  15. 5 The potato republic
  16. 6 Making more out of meat
  17. 7 Political palates
  18. 8 The empire of habit
  19. Conclusion
  20. References
  21. Index