Jenny L. Herman is a researcher and writer focusing on connections between food, the arts, and society. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, conducted as an FWO fellow in fundamental research at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research incorporates cultural studies, history, social and literary theory, and policy analysis, with a special focus on culinary heritage, the construction of identity through foodways, and the intersection of cultural and agricultural policies. She is currently researching the impacts of climate change on regionally and culturally anchored foodways, especially wine production, in France and across Europe.

• Chapter 1.- Interrogating French foodways.- Chapter 2.- Safeguarding French Gastronomy: Culture and nature meet policy.- Chapter 3.- Terroir, Locality, and Culinary ‘Lieux de Mémoire’.- Chapter 4.- Borders, Belonging and Culinary Nationalism.- Chapter 5.- Culinary Heritage Beyond Locality.

Jenny L. Herman is a researcher and writer focusing on connections between food, the arts, and society. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, conducted as an FWO fellow in fundamental research at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research incorporates cultural studies, history, social and literary theory, and policy analysis, with a special focus on culinary heritage, the construction of identity through foodways, and the intersection of cultural and agricultural policies. She is currently researching the impacts of climate change on regionally and culturally anchored foodways, especially wine production, in France and across Europe.

• Chapter 1.- Interrogating French foodways.- Chapter 2.- Safeguarding French Gastronomy: Culture and nature meet policy.- Chapter 3.- Terroir, Locality, and Culinary ‘Lieux de Mémoire’.- Chapter 4.- Borders, Belonging and Culinary Nationalism.- Chapter 5.- Culinary Heritage Beyond Locality.

Jenny L. Herman is a researcher and writer focusing on connections between food, the arts, and society. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, conducted as an FWO fellow in fundamental research at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research incorporates cultural studies, history, social and literary theory, and policy analysis, with a special focus on culinary heritage, the construction of identity through foodways, and the intersection of cultural and agricultural policies. She is currently researching the impacts of climate change on regionally and culturally anchored foodways, especially wine production, in France and across Europe.

• Chapter 1.- Interrogating French foodways.- Chapter 2.- Safeguarding French Gastronomy: Culture and nature meet policy.- Chapter 3.- Terroir, Locality, and Culinary ‘Lieux de Mémoire’.- Chapter 4.- Borders, Belonging and Culinary Nationalism.- Chapter 5.- Culinary Heritage Beyond Locality.