Intro -- Introduction -- 1 Our Ancestors, the Gauls -- 2 The Virgin of the Kidney -- 3 Barbarians at the Plate -- 4 Ode to Gluttony -- 5 Left Behind: The Goats of Poitou -- 6 The Sweetest King -- 7 They Came from the Sea -- 8 Feudal Fare -- 9 Of Monks and Men -- 10 Fighting for Plums -- 11 The Wine That Got Away -- 12 The Vegetarian Heresy -- 13 A Papal Red -- 14 The White Gold of Guérande -- 15 Legacy of a Black Prince -- 16 The Vinegar of the Four Thieves -- 17 The Cheese of Emperors and Mad Kings -- 18 La Dame de Beauté and the Mushroom Mystery -- 19 Fruits of the Renaissance -- 20 The Mother Sauces -- 21 Conquest and Chocolate -- 22 The Culinary Contributions of Madame Serpent -- 23 A Chicken in Every Pot -- 24 The Chestnut Insurgency -- 25 The Bitter Roots of Sugar -- 26 The Liquor of the Gods -- 27 The Crescent Controversy -- 28 War and Peas -- 29 The Devil's Wine -- 30 An Enlightened Approach to Food -- 31 Revolution in the Cafés -- 32 Pain d'Égalité -- 33 The Potato Propagandist -- 34 The Pyramid Provocation -- 35 The Man Who Abolished the Seasons -- 36 The Fifth Crêpe -- 37 The King of Cheeses -- 38 A Revolutionary Banquet -- 39 The End of the Oyster Express -- 40 Revelation in a Bottle -- 41 The Curse of the Green Fairy -- 42 Siege Gastronomy -- 43 The Peanut Patrimony -- 44 Gastronomads on the Sun Road -- 45 A Friend in Difficult Hours -- 46 A Mutiny and a Laughing Cow -- 47 "Bread, Peace, and Liberty": The Socialist Baguette -- 48 Couscous: The Assimilation (or Not) of Empire -- 49 The Forgotten Vegetables -- 50 Canon Kir Joins the Resistance -- 51 France and the United States: From Liberation to Exasperation -- 52 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.