Thanks to a Julia Child Independent Scholar grant that I won from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, a few years ago I spent a month in France researching a topic close to my heart: the culinary impact of European colonialism on modern food habits. The Bibliothèque nationale de France intimidated me, its stainless steel and glass exterior, aloof librarians, and endless escalators a daily challenge.
But I persevered and eventually parlayed that research into the beginnings of a new book, focusing on the women who went out to the colonies, their lives a metaphor for the policies and practices implemented by stern men in suits ruling from Europe’s great capitol cities.
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Triumph http://wp.me/sikJk-triumph Thanks to a Julia Child Independent Scholar grant that I won from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, a few years ago I spent a month in France researching a topic close to my heart: the culinary impact of European colonialism on modern food habits.