About the Authors

Mohamed Bernoussi, who was born and raised in Morocco, is a graduate student in Tours, completing a dissertation on the semiotics of Umberto Eco. He has written a thesis on the eighteenth-century "roman noir" and has an article on Eco forthcoming in Semiotica.

Trudy Eden is presently Associate Editor of the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1790-1810. She received a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University and wrote her dissertation on "Makes Like, Makes Unlike: Food, Health, and Identity in the Colonial Chesapeake." Her article on "The Malleability of the Human Form and the Limits of Race in Early Virginia" is forthcoming in "A Centre of Wonders": The Body in Early America (Cornell University Press).

Jean-louis Flandrin is Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris VIII, and held the title of Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales until his retirement. His many publications on food history include the Chronique de Platine (Odile Jacob, 1992) and the monumental Histoire de 1'alimentation (Fayard, 1996), coedited with Massimo Montanari. He has published countless journal articles.

Anita Guerrini is Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara, with a specialty in environmental studies, history of science, and early modern European history. Her book, Food, Flesh, and Spirit: The Life and Times of George Cheyne will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1999.

Christine Hivet is "maître de conférences" (a French tenured rank midway between those of assistant and associate professor in the U.S.) of English at the University of Caen-Basse Normandie. She is the author of Voix de femmes: roman féminin et condition féminine de Mary Wollstonecraft à Mary Shelley (Presses de 1'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1997).

Rachel Laudan teaches history of science and has held positions at a number of universities, including Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Hawaii. She has also had visiting appointments at Princeton University's Davis Center and Institute for Advanced Studies, as well as at MIT's Dibner Institute. Her latest book, The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage (University of Hawaii Press, 1997) won the Jane Grigson/Julia Child award in 1997. She is presently completing a history of food for the University of Chicago Press.

Gilly Lehmann is "maître de conférences" of English at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon and the author of numerous articles on culinary history. Among her recent publications in English is the introduction to Prospect Books' 1996 facsimile reprint of Martha Bradley's The British Housewife (1756). A book on eighteenth-century English cookery is forthcoming.

Robert James Merrett is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta. He has published numerous articles on the semiotics of wine-drinking and literary history. His present research centers on the French press and cultural exchange as contexts for a comparative history of English eighteenth-century literature.

Timothy Morton is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His publications on food include Shelley and the Revolution in Taste (Cambridge University Press, 1994, repr. 1998), Radical Food (Routledge, forthcoming), The Poetics of Spice (currently under consideration by Cambridge University Press), and a number of essays. His present research interests include vegetarianism and the representation of spice.

Jeffrey M. Pilcher is Assistant Professor of History at The Citadel. He has a Ph.D. in Mexican cultural history. His book Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity has just been published by the University of New Mexico Press, and his articles on Mexican cuisine have won both the Thomas F. McGann Prize and the Tibesar Prize. He is currently researching today's globalization of Mexican cuisine.

Jacques Proust is Professor Emeritus of French at the Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III). An international authority on the Encyclopédie, he has of late shifted his focus of interest to Japan and its historical links with Europe. Among his countless publications...