TY - BOOK AU - Gilbert,Sandra M. TI - The Culinary Imagination: from Myth to Modernity SN - 0393067653 AV - TX631 .G524 2014 U1 - 641.013 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Gastronomy KW - Food KW - Social aspects N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -