Food history is a relatively new scholarly discipline, going back only about thirty years. It evolved from two seemingly disparate human endeavors, cooking and recording general history. The late food historian Karen Hess observed in 1981: “Few scholars are cooks—and fewer cooks scholars. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that no other aspect of human endeavor has been so neglected …
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