{"product_id":"9783032223555","title":"Safeguarding Savoir-Faire Culinary Heritage Initiatives, Globalization, and Nationalism in Contemporary France","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFood and Identity in a Globalising World\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSafeguarding Savoir-Faire\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCulinary Heritage Initiatives, Globalization, and Nationalism in Contemporary France\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJenny L. Herman\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Human Geography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis book examines the heritagization of food in France, revealing how these processes reflect broader societal tensions around national identity and social inclusion. Addressing a gap in scholarship on French culinary heritage, it investigates top-down policies and local initiatives that promote ‘authenticity’. Combining critical heritage and cultural studies, the book highlights the risks of commodifying culinary traditions while exploring sustainable, hybrid approaches to valuing foodways. It unpacks key concepts like terroir and savoir-faire to illustrate how food contributes to constructing social belonging, and considers the impacts of France’s gastronomic UNESCO recognitions, highlighting unintended effects such as cultural essentialization and the freezing of tradition. By analysing terroir-based marketing and the “buy local” movement, this book demonstrates how such initiatives can reinforce exclusionary narratives and geopolitical borders. It calls for inclusive approaches to culinary heritage which recognize the flows and exchanges behind traditions, and will interest scholars and students in food studies, heritage and cultural studies, French studies, comparative literature, socio-cultural anthropology, environmental humanities, and human geography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eJenny L. Herman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher at Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne University (EIREST), France, and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, conducted as an FWO fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium. Herman's research incorporates cultural studies, history, social and literary theory, and policy analysis, with a focus on culinary heritage, political ecology, and the construction of identity through foodways at the intersection of cultural and agricultural policies.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032223555\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e273\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46413354893452,"sku":"9783032223555","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032223555.jpg?v=1781061019","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032223555","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}