Ashley Rose Young Wins the Cherwell Food History Studentship

Ashley Rose Young was awarded the Cherwell Food History Studentship by the Friends of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. With this grant, Ashley conducted research in Paris where she studied the fascinating history of street food vendors and municipally regulated food markets in nineteenth-century Paris. Her research endeavors focused on artistic renderings of ethnic street food vendors who purveyed foods around the central market place in Paris, Les Halles. In July, Ashley presented her research at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery whose organizing theme was “Markets.” Ashley’s dissertation, Nourishing Networks: Provisioning Southern Cities in the Atlantic World examines the Atlantic influences on the street food cultures of nineteenth-century American port cities such as New Orleans and Baltimore.