Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. After publishing on French literary identity in "Literary France: The Making of a Culture", she studied the urban culture of Paris in "Paris as Revolution: Reading the Nineteenth-Century City". Her work on cuisine and food started with "Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine" and has moved into an ever more comparative perspective.