Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris

by E.C. Spary

Book Overview

Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners--from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights--E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating and drinking were used to articulate concerns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621446X
• ISBN13: 9780226214467
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"