Are Exotic Food-Experiences a Form of Eating on the Move at Home? Evidence from Two Culinary Magazines in the Long Eighties

Exotic food-experiences become between the end of the 1970s and the first years of the 1990s (hereafter referred to as “the long eighties”) a way of self-expression related to the growing demand of consumers of venture and discovery of new culinary experiences. Two culinary magazines, Gourmet and PPC - Petits Propos Culinaires, are surveyed as potential evidence of the origins and characteristics of exotic cuisine in this historical period.