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Italian identity : in the kitchen, or, food and the nation / Massimo Montanari ; translated by Beth Archer Brombert.
LIBRA TX360.I8 M6613 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montanari, Massimo, 1949-
- Standardized Title:
- Identità italiana in cucina. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Food--Italy.
- Food.
- Cooking, Italian--History.
- Cooking, Italian.
- History.
- Italy--Social life and customs.
- Italy.
- Manners and customs.
- Italians--Ethnic identity.
- Italians.
- National characteristics, Italian.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 106 pages ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Food and the nation
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Before there was an Italy there was a Europe
- Italy is a network of cities
- Models of cooking between unified and varied
- Popular culture and culture of the elite
- People and products that travel
- Preservation and renewal of alimentary identities
- Macaroni-eaters : how a national stereotype arose
- The Artusian synthesis
- The number of Italians increases
- The "Italian miracle" : between modernity and tradition
- The invention of regional cooking
- Epilogue : in search of home cooking.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0231160844
- 9780231160841
- OCLC:
- 824353125
- Publisher Number:
- 99956216978
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