Cheese and Late Modernity
Steven Shapin: The changing rind of Camembert, 20 November 2003
Camembert: A National Myth
by Pierre Boisard, translated by Richard Miller.
California, 254 pp., £19.95, June 2003,0 520 22550 3 Show More
by Pierre Boisard, translated by Richard Miller.
California, 254 pp., £19.95, June 2003,
“... America. In these respects Camembert is a lot more like the McMerde burger than you might suppose. Pierre Boisard seeks to show how, over the past 150 years or so, the cheese has been ruined: industrialised, homogenised, delocalised and, finally, pasteurised – and all without the assistance of American multinational corporations. It’s almost wholly an ... ”
