Food fraud and the big city: Brussels' responses to food anxieties in the nineteenth century

Food and the City in Europe since 1800

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 77-90

  Scholliers, Peter ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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