Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall.
Since the founding of the United States, culinary texts and practices have played a crucial role in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies. A
“A stunning picture of a black woman’s coming of age in America. Put it on the shelf beside The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” —Kirkus Reviews Elaine Brow
The explicit association between food and status was, academically speaking, first acknowledged on the food production level. He who owned the land, possessed t