Stéphane Hénaut’s wide-ranging career in food includes working in the Harrods fromagerie, cooking for the Lord Mayor of London’s banquets, and selling obscure vegetables in a French fruiterie. The co-author, with Jeni Mitchell, of A Bite-Sized History of France (The New Press), he lives in Berlin.
A husband and wife—he is French; she, American—move briskly through the history of France with a picnic basket full of information about the connections between history and gastronomy. The research underlying this account is sturdy and impressive. . . .
Publishers Weekly
A fascinating history of France through food [that is] exceptionally well-researched. This culinary history is a treat for Francophiles.
