Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France : : Across the Channel / / Garritt Dyk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Dyk, Garritt,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Food Culture, Food History before 1900 ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

“Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are” was the challenge issued by French gastronomist Jean Brillat-Savarin. Champagne is declared a unique emblem of French sophistication and luxury, linked to the myth of its invention by Dom Pérignon. Across the Channel, a cup of sweet tea is recognized as a quintessentially English icon, simultaneously conjuring images of empire, civility, and relentless rain that demands the sustenance and comfort that only tea can provide. How did these tastes develop in the seventeenth century? Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France: Across the Channel offers a compelling historical narrative of the relationship between food, national identity, and political economy in the early modern period. These mutually influential relationships are revealed through comparative and transnational analyses of effervescent wine, spices and cookbooks, the development of coffeehouses and cafés, and the ‘national sweet tooth’ in England and France.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Economics of Taste -- 1. Méthode Anglaise: Transnational Exchange and the Origins of Champagne -- 2. Primary Sauces: The Rise of Cookbooks, Cuisines, and Corporations -- 3. London Coffeehouse or Parisian Café? -- 4. Sugar and Empire: Tea’s ‘Inseparable Companion’ -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index