Food in Historical Re-enactment
Historical re-enactment is a part of Living History, which is a way to investigate the past through costumes and crafts. The aim of this paper is to understand, thanks to a French fieldwork, the culinary system that exists in the community of reenactors. The link between a historical approach of the past and contemporary ways of life is expressed through the leisure of re-enactment. Food consumption is a way to facilitate immersion into the past. It is based on experimentation process, through re-invention and re-creation of the past. Cooking allows the sociability of the group and is a link between culinary heritage and appropriation of historical crafts.