Food is culture / Massimo Montanari ; translated from the Italian by Albert Sonnenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montanari, Massimo, 1949-

Series:

Arts and traditions of the table

Standardized Title:

Cibo come cultura. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Food--History.

Food.

History.

Food habits--History.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

xii, 149 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Contents:

Creating one's own food

Nature and culture

Even nature is culture

Playing with time (and climate)

Playing with space

Conflicts

The invention of cuisine

Fire > cooking > kitchen > cuisine > civilization

Written cuisine and oral cooking

Anticuisine

Roasted and boiled

Pleasure and health

The pleasure and the duty of choice

Taste is a cultural product

Digression: playing at "historical cuisine"

Taste is a product of society

From the geography of taste to the taste of geography

The paradox of globalization

Food, language, identity

Eating together

The grammar of food

Substitutions and annexations

Tell me how much you eat and I'll tell you who you are

The how, the why, and the wherewithal

Food and the calendar: a lost dimension?

Identity, exchange, traditions, and "origins"

Roots: a metaphor to use all the way.

Notes:

Includes index.

Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231137907

9780231137904

0231510780

9780231510783

OCLC:

70335145