The Art of Eating in France: Manners and Menus in the Nineteenth Century

by Jean Paul Aron

English, French (translation)

Genres: France

249 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Jean-Paul Aron was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes, which was published in 1984.

He was an early person of renown in France to die of AIDS, and is widely credited for giving the disease a human face and challenging the public perception of the disease. During his lifetime, he published several historical works that examined middle-class social practices. He is buried at 6, rue du Repos in Paris.

Reviews

[Ginger Schiffmayer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only read the first half—seems to be an artistic book which suffers a bit in translation.