Writing Food History

Kyri W. Claflin teaches at Boston University and is the author of numerous articles including 'La Villette: The City of Blood, 1867-1914' in Meat, Modernity and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse (2008) and 'Les Halles and the Moral Market: Frigophobia Strikes in the Belly of Paris,' in the Oxford Symposium volume Food & Morality (2008).

Peter Scholliers is professor of Contemporary History at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium. He edited Food, Drink and Identity (Berg, 2001), Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe since the Middle Ages, and published Food Culture in Belgium and co-edited (with Fabio Parasecoli) A Cultural History of Food (Berg, 2011).