Article: Food: A Culinary History.(Review)

Food: A Culinary History. Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin & Massimo Montanari (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xviii plus 592 pp. $39.95).

This translation of an important 1996 French publication edited by two specialists on food history, Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari, comes with high praise. Nicely produced (although rather poorly illustrated), it will be a useful sourcebook for the burgeoning field of food studies. At the same time, the book will almost certainly frustrate many of its scholarly readers in the English-speaking world. Its title is misleading. Precisely because French and Italian scholars pioneered in food history (an ...

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