[Sca-cooks] I was wondering in the bookstore

[Carper, Rachel]

Since I am going out to my fathers in Oregon in June I was over
wandering the aisles at Powells online and came across this book.  
 
Food: A Culinary History (European Perspectives: A Series in Social
Thought & Cultural Criticism) 
by Jean Louis Flandrin
<http://www.powells.com/search/DTSearch/search?author=Jean%20Louis%20Fla
ndrin>  
ISBN: 0231111541
 
Does anybody have any personal knowledge of it?