The Bulk of Carole Counihan's Data on Food and Nutrition

question 25

Multiple Choice

The bulk of Carole Counihan's data on food and nutrition in Tuscany came from

• A) old restaurant menus from nineteenth-century Florence.
• B) food-centered life histories from individuals from different generations.
• C) cook-books written by important Tuscan chefs in the early twentieth century.
• D) interviews with nutritionists at Italian universities.

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