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Food, Class, and Morality: Constructing Social Hierarchies at the Table - Faustine Régnier, Distinctions alimentaires (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2025, 298 p.) and Kate Gibson, Feeding the Middle Classes (Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2024, 180 p.)

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Faustine Régnier, Distinctions alimentaires (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2025, 298 p.) and Kate Gibson, Feeding the Middle Classes (Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2024, 180 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2026

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Carlo Genova*
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Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin , Italy. Email: carlo.genova@unito.it.
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , First View , pp. 1 - 7
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