Event
Rebecca Earle (Warwick), "The Nature of Nourishment: What Did it Mean to Call Food 'Nourishing' in the 18th Century?"
Thursday, March 30, 2017 15:00to17:00
Room 116, Peterson Hall, CA, QC, Montreal, 3460 rue McTavish, CA
Eighteenth-century European writers frequently described foods as ‘nourishing’. What did they mean? Drawing primarily on material from Britain and France, this paper charts eighteenth-century efforts to define the nature of nourishment.
Sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS)
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