Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears

Madeleine Ferrieres

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November, 2005
Cloth, 416 pages, none
ISBN: 978-0-231-13192-6
$35.00 / £24.00

Series Editor’s Preface

Preface to the American Edition

Introduction

1. Forbidden Meats

2. Political Meat

3. The Birth of the Consumer

4. The Vigilant Consumer

5. The Phobia of New Plants

6. Bread on Trial

7. Silent Fears

8. The Pate and the Garden

9. Hungarian Cattle Disease

10. From the Epizootic to the Epidemic

11. The Politics of Precaution

12. The Dangers of Imperfect Metals

12. Health Conflicts

14. Bourgeois Serenity

15. English Cattle Disease

16. The Poisoners of Chicago

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Food History & Culinary Studies

Series

• Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

About the Author

Madeleine Ferrières is professor of social history at the University of Avignon.Jody Gladding is a published poet and the translator of several works, including French Gastronomy: The History and Geography of a Passion.

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