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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.

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"Spary's materials offer new possibilities for seeing the Enlightenment as a contest over practical virtue, over the texture of quotidian life. How should you live? What should you eat? What's for dinner?" (Los Angeles Review of Books)"

Eating the Enlightenment

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    A Paperback by E. C. Spary


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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 10/7/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226214467, 978-0226214467
      ISBN10: 022621446X
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      Cultural studies: food and society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Spary's materials offer new possibilities for seeing the Enlightenment as a contest over practical virtue, over the texture of quotidian life. How should you live? What should you eat? What's for dinner?" (Los Angeles Review of Books)"

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