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Paperback Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris Book

ISBN: 022621446X

ISBN13: 9780226214467

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris

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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...

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