Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France Across the Channel

This text offers a compelling historical narrative of the relationship between food, national identity, and political economy in the early modern period. These mutually influential relationships are revealed through comparative and transnational analyses of effervescent wine, spices and cookbooks, the development of coffeehouses and cafés, and the 'national sweet tooth' in England and France.

About the author

Garritt Van Dyk is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He has published essays in A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, EMaj, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Petits Propos Culinaires. He is a recipient of the Sophie Coe Prize for writing in food history.

Product details

• Authors: Garritt van Dyk, Garritt Dyk
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.12.2025
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781041177296
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4117729-6
• Pages: 214
• Series: Food Culture, Food History before 1900
• Subjects: History, Sociology, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Cuisine, Food & society, Commerce, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Early Modern, Medical Sociology, History and Archaeology, Cultural studies: food and society, food;history;commerce;cuisine;early modern, national identity formation, comparative food history England France