1st Edition
Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France Across the Channel
By Garritt van Dyk
Copyright 2022
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you who you are was the challenge issued by French gastronomist Jean Brillat-Savarin. Champagne is declared a unique emblem of French sophistication and luxury, linked to the myth of its invention by Dom Pérignon. Across the Channel, a cup of sweet tea is recognized as a quintessentially English icon, simultaneously conjuring images of empire, civility, and... Read more
Introduction: The Economics of Taste, Chapter 1: Méthode Anglaise: Transnational Exchange and the Origins of Champagne, Chapter 2: Primary Sauces: The Rise of Cookbooks, Cuisines, and Corporations, Chapter 3: London Coffeehouse or Parisian Café? Chapter 4: Sugar and Empire: Tea's ‘Inseparable Companion', Conclusion, Bibliography.
Biography
Garritt Van Dyk is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He has published essays in A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, EMaj, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Petits Propos Culinaires. He is a recipient of the Sophie Coe Prize for writing in food history.
Van Dyk's book stands out because it pushes the historical narrative further back chronologically... By focusing on food, Van Dyk claims to 'have relocated the development of national sentiment in England and France to the early modern period.'',- Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University, Food and History , 22.1, 2027
