Feeding France: New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815
- ISBN-10
- 1107031052
- ISBN-13
- 9781107031050
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 428
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-05-20
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- E. C. Spary
Description
Feeding France shows how chemists navigated the French Revolution to become the first public food experts in an industrialising world.
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