Tastes of Homes: Exploring Food and Place in Twentieth-Century Europe

Food and taste play an essential role in sentiments of belonging and exclusion, and in turn, these sentiments are central to defining one's home as a material or an imagined place. Taste refers to a gustatory sense that makes humans capable of differentiating flavors on the one hand and describes cultural preferences and eating patterns on the other. As a social construction, home can refer to a physical place imbued with domestic notions of...