Taylor and Francis

Taylor and Francis

English

'Food history and urban studies are the hottest topics in Europe today: this book combines both. Big cities - London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Prague and other urban magnets in the last two centuries - are huge, hungry bellies. Volume, modernity, risks. Fusion, fraud, flavour and fashion. It is all on the menu of this rich, diverse and well-balanced book.' Marc Jacobs, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium 'Food and the City reinforces the idea present in recent studies of eating habits that food should no longer just be seen as offering insights into consumption patterns and that food is rich with social and cultural meanings.' Social History of Medicine 'This collection provides not only some extremely interesting studies of the difficulties in feeding cities well, but a fascinating glimpse of the roots of problems with which we still grapple.' Agricultural History Review