#Rebecca L. Spang

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My favorite source notes in The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture by Rebecca L. Spang

One recent analysis argues that Mayeux, though a “deformed dwarf,” was a “hero of the people”

It is unclear whether the murder of a lingerie merchant by her lover, a Russian servant, happened in a cabinet or in the restaurant’s main salon

Carême, by far the most famous chef and cookbook author of the first half of the nineteenth century, prefaced his books with calls for martyrdom; no sacrifice was too great for the chef’s art

The invasions of 1814-1815 had been “disastrous from the perspective of glory” but nonetheless very profitable

The utopian socialist Charles Fourier had offered a “scientific” perspective on this ideal, arguing that when humanity progressed from the state of “Civilization” to that of “Harmony,” the polar icecaps would melt and fill the oceans with lemonade.

The police also kept Napoleon up to date on conditions in the fan industry

Another of the Almanach’s rare ventures in recipe publishing concluded: “one would eat one’s own father if he were prepared with this sauce,”

The little old lady who followed the First Consul everywhere in the hope of inviting him to dinner

Even a recent, generally friendly, biographer writes of Louis’s “huge size which, if nothing else, was to make him such a remarkable king”

Although the first anniversary of Bonaparte’s coup had not been declared a state holiday, it had nonetheless been spontaneously celebrated by “the fatherland’s real friends”

The numerous turn-of-the-century singing societies have yet to find their historian

The seesaw was a staple of post-revolutionary French political imagery. It was especially common in depictions of the physically slight Napoleon and the bulky Louis XVIII

Physicians claimed that unqualified persons, in reading about diseases, would start to see all the symptoms in themselves. The Gazette de santé decried inexpensive medical dictionaries as “just so many swords in the hands of fools” and reported a case of “cholera induced by reading popular medical books,”

The Swedish monarch was often praised for his sagacity in outlawing copper cookware.

De Jaucourt, author of this article, cites Homeric heroes as dietary role models

An article in the Encyclopédie also made it clear that semen had to be directly replaced with nourishment

He explains, “They are for a financier who is going to do his rounds through the provinces. Can a man of his importance put up with the horrible soups they serve in inns?”

Fights might erupt over other tastes as well; for one over salad dressing

The Marquis de Brunoy famously squandered his inheritance on tinting a river black and dressing his gardeners, cooks, and other servants in lavish, gold-braid-festooned costumes, while he himself dressed in rags

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I have never wanted to look up a reference so badly (from The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture by Rebecca L. Spang)

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Bibliografie

Brillat-Savarin. The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin. Frankrijk: 1825.

Chistian, David. Origin Story: A Big History of Everyhing. Boston: Little, Brown Spark, 2018.

Civitello, Linda. Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People. Hoboken: Wiley, 2007.

Cuisinenet. Marie-Antoine Carême: Profile of a Genius Chef. Website Cuisinenet: https://www.cuisinenet.com/chefs/marie-antoine-careme/. Geraadpleegd op 22/10/2024.

Frankopan, Peter. The Earth Transformed. Londen: Bloomsbury, 2023.

Holleran, Claire. ‘’Finding Commerce: The Taberna and the Identification of Roman Commercial Space’’ in Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. 85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

James, Kenneth. Escoffier: The King of Chefs. Londen: Hambledon and London, 2002.

Mack, John. A Brief History of the World to 1500. Montreal: Pressbooks, geraadpleegd op 20/10/2024.

Messer, Ellen, et. al. ‘’Culinary History’’ in The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla. Accounting for Taste. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla. ‘’Writing Out of the Kitchen: Carême and the Invention of French Cuisine’’ in Gastronomica, Vol. 3, No. 3. Oakland: University of California Press, 2003.

Pilcher. Jeffrey M. Food in World History, No.3. Milton Park: Routledge, 2023.

Sartor, Valerie. ‘’All the Tea in China: The Political Impact of Tea’’ in American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2. San Antonio: American Institution of Chinese Studies, 2007.

Sokolova, Alla. ‘’Phenomenon of Interaction between Italian and English Court Culture in the First Half of 17th Century’’ in Bulletin of the National Academy of Culture and Arts Management. Kyiv: National Academy of Culture and Arts Management, 2022.

Spang, Rebecca L. The Invention of the Restaurant. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Sukapdjo, Amye. ‘’Le Restauration Rapide: An Affront to the Collective Cultural Memory of French Cuisine’’ in The Coastal Review, Vol. 4, No. 1. Statesboro: Georgia Southern University Press, 2013.

Thompson, Willie. ‘’3 The Neolithic Transformation and its Consequences: Settlement, Wealth and Social Differentation’’ in Work, Sex and Power: Forces that Shaped Our History. Londen: Pluto Press, 2015.

Wells, Jonathan C.K., Stock, Jay T. ‘’Life History Transitions at the Origins of Agriculture: A Model for Understanding How Niche Construction Impacts Human Growth, Demography and Health’’ in Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Growth and Development. Lausanne: Frontiers Media, 2020.

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That the United States today faces no economic or financial impediments to further borrowing, only politico-legal ones, may come as some relief, but it also speaks to the country’s growing capacity for self-inflicted economic trauma. 

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Your potato post is wonderful! Thank you for writing it and studying the subject. Is your thesis available to read?

 Thanks! 

Yeah that... kind of blew up in an unexpected way, huh? 

I’m glad I could entertain y’all with my knowledge of this niche topic! My thesis was an undergraduate honours thesis, and as such is unpublished. Its focus was on the aestheticisation of French food and the emergence of the restaurant, potatoes were just one small topic I touched on. 

But! I can recommend some great books and articles from my research, which you might find interesting (provided below the cut).

A Revolution in Taste by Susan Pinkard. This was the backbone of my thesis research. Pinkard discusses dietetics, the medieval diet, and its transformation from an matter of necessity, healthfulness, and status, to an aesthetic experience. 

A Palate in Revolution by Giles MacDonogh Unfortunately my copy arrived too late to be used in my thesis, but this book is an account of Grimod de la Reynière and his Almanach des Gourmands, the first culinary critic, whose famous funerary feast is definitely worth a looksee. 

Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent by John Reader If you like potatoes, this is the book to read!

The Flour War: Gender, Class, and Community in Late Ancien Regme France by Cynthia Bouton. 

A detailed look at subsistance riots, with emphasis on the 1775 Flour War. 

The Invention of the Restaurant by Rebecca L. Spang All the way back to the origin of the word restaurant as a medicinal broth. Another big resource for my thesis. 

The Essay of Health and Long Life by George Cheyne An essay from 1724 about dietetics (healthy eating) that forms the precursor to the restaurant broth that would develop into modern restaurants. 

It’s been quite some time since I wrote this thesis back in 2013-2014. The field of food history was, then, a newly popular and expanding field. I’m sure there are way more resources available now than there were to me back then. Especially considering I was working out of a university with no particular interest in culinary history, and therefore had limited resources. 

I hope you enjoy! 

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Consumption has been heading in this direction for decades. Why go to the shops when Amazon will deliver? Why talk to the cashier when you can use a deadening self-checkout? Meanwhile, restaurants are closing and the ones still open are quieter. The lounge room is replacing the cafe and restaurant in what Jurgen Habermas called "the public sphere". But someone's private home cannot really be part of the public sphere, even if you invite other people over for dinner. It's just not the same. Rebecca L Spang, a history professor at Indiana University, wrote about this in The Atlantic late last year. "If brick-and-mortar restaurants become mere storefronts for delivery services, they will cease to be public spaces in any sense of the term," she warned, noting some new "restaurants" in London existed only as kitchens.

Michael Koziol, 'Why we should ban food delivery apps - or at least use them a bit less', Sydney Morning Herald

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I thought this would be useful for someone.

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Italy’s Terrifying Currency Scheme is Insanely Bullish for Bitcoin

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Italy’s Terrifying Currency Scheme is Insanely Bullish for Bitcoin

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Italy’s Terrifying Currency Scheme is Insanely Bullish for Bitcoin

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RebeccaSpang @ June 04, 2020 at 07:24PM

I have fallen behind but promise to finish #MoneyAtoZ before the end of July. Today, two threads (one about the 1830s-1850s; another, the last few decades) highlight place of slavery, racism, and discrimination in US history of money. F. F is for Free Banking. 1/x https://t.co/g4lCxeKmsp

— Rebecca L. Spang (@RebeccaSpang) June 4, 2020

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