Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways by Eugenia Afinoguénova, Lara Anderson and Rebecca Ingram, editors

Authors

  • Vicky Hayward Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.32883

Keywords:

book review, spain, food history, food culture

Abstract

Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways by Eugenia Afinoguénova, Lara Anderson and Rebecca Ingram, editors. Vanderbilt University Press, 2024, 318pp., Hardback $95.80, Paperback $34.95, Kindle $19.99.

Author Biography

  • Vicky Hayward, Independent Scholar

    Vicky Hayward learned to cook professionally before studying history at the University of Cambridge. Her interests in social and cultural history, and mixed methodologies, shape her work as a non-fiction writer, book editor, translator and food historian who specialises in Spain (www.vickyhayward.es). Vicky’s writing includes revised entries for the Oxford Companion to Food (2nd edition). In 2017 she won the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar’s Kitchen Notebook (Rowman & Littlefield), her retelling of a seminal 1745 cookbook, which she set against social history and culinary recreation exploring friary flavours and modernity (www.newartofcookery.com). She lives in Spain.

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Published

2025-05-27

Issue

Vol. 131 (2025)

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Hayward, Vicky. 2025. “Digestible Governance: Gastrocracy and Spanish Foodways by Eugenia Afinoguénova, Lara Anderson and Rebecca Ingram, Editors”. Petits Propos Culinaires 131 (May): 129-31. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.32883.