| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge social and cultural histories ; no. 19 |
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Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 19.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Economic expertise ; From économie to industrie -- 1. Economic eaters. Personal économie ; Public économie ; Commercial économie ; Women and économie ; Conclusion -- 2. The kingdom of bread. From political to chemical économie ; Alternative solutions ; Responses to Parmentier ; Bread abolitionists ; Conclusion -- 3. The matter of nourishment. The quest for the matter of nutrition ; A matter of heterodoxy ; Why French doctors banned the scales ; Succulence and opulence ; Quantifying broth -- 4. Health foods and the medical marketplace. Parisian apothecaries lay claim to learned status ; The market for health foods ; Endorsing chocolate ; Health flours and the perils of Old Regime entrepreneurship ; Conclusion -- 5. The potato republic ; Subsistence level ; 'First among vegetables' ; Potato experimenters in Paris ; Industrialising the potato ; 'The Revolution is over' -- 6. Making more out of meat ; Offcuts ; Republican gelatine ; From gelatinous matter to gelatine ; Shaky authority ; Conclusion -- 7. Political palates ; After Republicanism, gastronomy ; The Maecenas of gourmands ; Gender and gastronomy ; Gastronomy against the sciences ; Making a science of taste ; Conclusion -- 8. The empire of habit. Need and nourishment ; The Empire strikes back ; The search for grape sugar ; Sugar, the chemical chamaeleon ; Switching foods, shifting expertise ; The Emperor conquers Switzerland ; Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Manuscripts -- Printed works -- Index |
| Summary |
Feeding France shows how chemists navigated the French Revolution to become the first public food experts in an industrialising world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Food industry and trade -- France -- History -- 19th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Food industry and trade
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Lebensmittelindustrie
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Lebensmittelhandel
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Levensmiddelenindustrie.
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France
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Frankreich
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Frankrijk.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139959810 |
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1139959816 |
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9781139381185 |
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1139381180 |
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9781139957700 |
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1139957708 |
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9781139958752 |
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1139958755 |
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