15 juillet 2019
cassandramarsillo, « Historical food for thought: How the way to the public's heart is through their stomach », IFPH-FIHP, ID : 10670/1.iw7m22
Author: Louise Quick, multimedia journalist and public historian. I love food. It’s not a mind-blowing statement, I know. Eating is an enjoyable – and necessary – part of human existence. It’s one of the great common denominators throughout human history: we all have to eat and we always have. Even Mahatma Ghandi, Jane Austen, Winston Churchill and Boudicca would have woken up wondering: ‘what’s for breakfast?’. It’s this that makes food such an exciting tool for public historians. It...