Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine
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The Importance of French High Cuisine
French cuisine became the standard of sophistication and high dining. It's lost some of its cachet I'd say in the last 50 years but it still remains a standard of high dining. The old cuisines of spiced food that ultimately stemming from Persia were displaced by this new northern European cuisine. We live with the results of that.
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