Culinary History vs. Food History: Culinary Historians

Working from a basic knowledge of how a dish is cooked, culinary historians have commonly been curious about the origins of different dishes and the people that produced them. At the same time, many of these largely independent scholars have gone on to investigate such related subjects as the specific foods people grow, which animals they domesticate, and the ways in which foods move from one culture to another. The scope of their work is without limit and often provides an informed analysis of how food reveals the nature of a culture in a particular time and place.