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Maryann Tebben is Professor of French and head of the Center for Food Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock, Massachusetts. She is author of Sauces: A Global History (Reaktion, 2014).
The book is admirably ambitious, crisply written, and lively. . . . It brims with an abundance of varied information. . . . A very readable, wide-ranging, and original synthesis on the subject. --Michael D. Garval, North Carolina State University Savoir-Faire is a superbly researched and extremely comprehensive history of the complex food of France. Tebben's exhaustive documentation takes us from the salted pork of the Gauls to the bread of the middle ages, the nineteenth-century opulence of Careme's buffet to the cuisine bourgeoise and les meres de Lyon. An all-encompassing work for anyone interested in the importance of cuisine in French culture. --Chef Jacques Pepin
