Claudia Kreklau – The Making of Modern Eating
How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 (Studies in German History, 32)
Interview with Claudia Kreklau about her book The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910. Discusses how the German middle class pioneered modern eating, adapting elite courtly culinary trends to their means and combining them with established preservation customs; inadvertently driving food industrialisation and a dynamic interaction with food change, balancing acceptance and resistance of new technologies. Highlights the transnational spread of these practices through migration, education, and trade, shaping global food culture and leading to early food safety regulations.
