Les Leftovers

sort of a food history blog

Saturday, December 26, 2020

The hard lives of the porteuses de pain

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  From the late eighteenth century through World War II, women delivered bread in Paris and elsewhere. While men are exceptionally shown doi...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY: And now, the BOOK! "Before the Baguette" is out

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If you've been enjoying the series here on French bread history, you may be delighted to know there is now a whole BOOK out on the subje...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY: Glossary of French breads

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This is an attempt to define every French bread with any sustained history, omitting only certain one-off loaves and purely commercial, bra...
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Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is "Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food'; this follows a history of French bread - "Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread" - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: "They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'. CHOICE magazine named his "A History of the Food of Paris: From Roast Mammoth to Steak Frites" an Outstanding Academic Achievement for 2019; for more about this history of Parisian food, see parisfoodhistory,com . He has appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning" and other media outlets.
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