Abstract
Proust’s text famously connected taste and memory. The French soldiers’ wartime food experience with Camembert cheese would serve to tie taste to memory, in addition to linking a cheese to national identity and heritage. The concept of collective cultural memory is used to discuss how a foodstuff came to represent a nation and its values during la Grande Guerre, a crucial period of political and social change.
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