Combining rigorous archival research with social history and cultural studies, Defining Culinary Authority uncovers the lost world of France s cooks. Davis interrogates the development of cooking aesthetics and practices by examining the propagation of taste, the training of cooks, and the policing of the culinary marketplace in the name of safety and good taste. French cooks formed their profession through a series of debates intimately conne...
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