Food & History - 24:1 (2026)

The Bittersweet Life of a Solitary Man: Food Culture, Eating Practices and Metaphors in the Works and Notes of Francesco Petrarch
Elisa PASTORELLI

Préférences culinaires, repas de fête et hospitalité à Caffa génoise (XIV^e-XV^e siècles)
Andrei MIREA

Chocolate in Eighteenth-Century France: Representation, Production and Consumption
Pascale RIHOUET

Bourgeois Reformers and Social Catering in Belgium, 1868–1914
Jeffrey TYSSENS

Prescription or Self-Prescription? Popularising Vegetarian Cuisine in France (late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries)
Alexandra HONDERMARCK

The Science of Survival: Max Rubner’s Battle for Edible Bread in Wartime Germany
Nina RÉGIS

Book Reviews / Comptes-rendus

Marianne VEDELER, Annechen BAHR BUTTE (eds), Culinary heritage. Tracing, Shaping and Reshaping Food Culture from the Middle Ages to the Present (Oslo: Cappelen Damm Forskining, 2024), 266pp., ISBN: 978-8-202-83927-7 [Open edition: https://cdforskning.no/cdf/catalog/book/238].
Andrea MARASCHI

Margaux TILLIER, Économie végétale des espaces portuaires en Méditerranée romaine : alimentation, productions locales, échanges et paysages (Dremil-Lafage : Éditions Mergoil, coll. APA-08, 2023), 162 pp., 69 illus., ISBN 978-2-35518-132-0.
Marie-Pierre RUAS

Andrea MARASCHI, Francesca TASCA, Food, Heresies and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024), 254 pp., ISBN 978-94-6372-796-9.
Andrew JOTISCHKY

Marie Casset, Des pommes au cidre. Les premiers temps en Normandie et ailleurs (Ier-XVIe siècle) (Bayeux, OREP, 2023), 144 pp., ISBN 978-2-8151-0863-8.
Alban GAUTIER

Stephan F. EBERT, Gerrit Jasper SCHENK (eds), Vom Buch aufs Feld – vom Feld ins Buch. Verflechtungen von Theorie und Praxis in Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (ca. 1300-1600) (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2024), 418 pp., 43 illus., 4 tables, ISBN 978-3-17-043296-3.
Rengenier RITTERSMA

« Gambrinus et Clio, la bière et les mondes brassicoles au regard de l’histoire », in Revue du Nord, no. 448/1, 2024, pp. 9-171, ISSN 0035-2624 ; ISSN en ligne 2271-7005.
Didier NOURRISSON

Kris BUTLER, Drink Maps in Victorian Britain (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024), 208 pp., 47 colour plates, ISBN 978-1-8512-4578-9.
Victoria AFANASYEVA

Peter SCHOLLIERS, A History of Bread. Consumers, Bakers and Public Authorities since the 18^th Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022; pbk 2024), 296 pp., ISBN ‎978-1-3503-6176-8.
Nina RÉGIS

Emily Kathryn MORGAN, Imaging Animal Industry: American Meatpacking in Photography and Visual Culture (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2024), 279 pp., ISBN 13-978-1-609-38963-5.
Dominic A. PACYGA 

Theresa McCULLA, Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024), 352 pp., ISBN 978-0-2268-3382-8.
Clint BRUCE
 

Ronda BRULOTTE, Mezcal in Oaxaca. A Craft Spirit for the Global Market (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025), 192 pp., 16 b&w photos, 2 maps, ‎ISBN 978-1-477-33095-1.
Domingo GARCIA GARZA