We are students in HIST 452, History of the New Europe, a course offered in the History Department at Cornell University with Professor Holly Case. We created this website in the fall semester of 2005 as part of an assignment. The course, a senior seminar, dealt with the history of Europe's efforts to renew or reinvent itself from the late 18th century to the present.

One of the assignments for the course was to create a website integrating themes of history and European identity. We concluded that food has long been a means of expressing and contesting identities, and that learning more about food would help us to better understand the grassroots implications of identity politics in Europe.

Copyright information

The analyses and syntheses on these pages are original works by the students of HIST 452 (listed above). We have made every effort to cite media sources conscientiously and to avoid breach of copyright, but if you have reason to believe that text, images, or music have been inappropriately cited on, integrated into, or linked to our site please contact us immediately.

Site credits

Our thanks go to Maureen Morris for passing on her technical expertise, Stuart Davis and Fred Horan for getting us the software we needed, and Cornell Information Technologies for providing the web space necessary to post the site.