Hendriksen Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Large-scale conservation of perishable foodstuffs in the Low Countries, 1600-1800

In the early modern period, large-scale food conservation practices such as fermenting, smoking, and pickling were crucial for globalizing trade and increasing food security, and thus for economic and demographic growth in Europe’s cultural trading hubs. In addition, recent research indicates that domestic and trade practices like food conservation were key to the development of natural philosophical and chemical knowledge and vice versa. Yet we still know very little about how knowledge on early modern food conservation was produced, adapted, and circulated across these domains. How can we retrieve and understand embodied, practical historical knowledge through the history of early modern…

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