Food as History: A Discussion

Adrian Miller’s The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas is an historical chronicle of the daily table in the White House. In The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy, Justin Spring tells the story of six American writer-adventurers in Paris during the 30-year boom that followed WWII, and how they changed the way Americans eat and think about food. Laura Shapiro presents a delicious portrait of famous women in What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories.

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