The Culinary Imagination : from Myth to Modernity / Sandra M. Gilbert.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xx, 404 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393067653
- 9780393067651
- 641.013 23
- TX631 .G524 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Digging in, tastes of past and present -- 1. Add food and stir, life in the virtual kitchen -- 2. Black cake, life (and death) on the food chain -- 3. All that is toothsome? Sacred food, deadly dining -- 4. Master belly and our daily bread, a brief history -- -- Pt. II. Today's table talk : recipes of the modern -- 5. The kitchen muse : the modernist cookbook and its sequels -- 6. Tastes of clay : the many courses of the culinary memoir -- 7. Bitter herbs or the spices of life? the ambiguities of transnational foodoir -- 8. Hail to the chef! The cook, the camera, the critic -- 9. Cooking the books, cosiness, disgust, desire, despair -- -- Pt III. Food for thought -- 10. The poetics of ice cream -- 11. Food chaines, food fights, fears frauds and fantasies.
From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert traces the social, aesthetic, and political history of food from myth to modernity, from ancient sources to our current wave of food mania.
Text in English.
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