Review of Jean-Pierre Poulain’s The Sociology of Food: eating and the place of food in society.

Jean-Pierre Poulain, The Sociology of Food: eating and the place of food in society. Translated by Augusta Dörr. London: Bloomsbury 2017. 288p. Review written on 31 August 2017 This is a translation into English of Jean-Pierre Poulain’s Sociologies de l’alimentation which was first published in 2002. It is a book that I read from cover to cover not long after it came out which, given my limitations in the manipulation of the French language, is a huge endorsement of its quality and originali..