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A bite-sized history of France : gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment / Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henaut, Stéphane, author.
- Mitchell, Jeni, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dinners and dining.
- History.
- Gastronomy.
- France.
- Gastronomy--France--History.
- Food habits--France--History.
- Food habits.
- Dinners and dining--Political aspects--France--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "A French cheesemonger and an American academic and ex-pat join forces to serve up a sumptuous history of France and its food, in the delicious tradition of Anthony Bourdain, Peter Mayle, and Pamela Druckerman"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Our ancestors, the Gauls
- The virgin of the kidney
- Barbarians at the plate
- Ode to gluttony
- Left behind : the goats of Poitou
- The sweetest king
- They came from the sea
- Feudal fare
- Of monks and men
- Fighting for plums
- The wine that got away
- The vegetarian heresy
- A papal red
- The white gold of Guérande
- Legacy of a black prince
- The vinegar of the four thieves
- The cheese of emperors and mad kings
- La dame de beauté and the mushroom mystery
- Fruits of the Renaissance
- The mother sauces
- Conquest and chocolate
- The culinary contributions of Madame Serpent
- A chicken in every pot
- The chestnut insurgency
- The bitter roots of sugar
- The liquor of the gods
- The crescent controversy
- War and peas
- The Devil's wine
- An enlightened approach to food
- Revolution in the cafés
- Pain d'égalité
- The potato propagandist
- The pyramid provocation
- The man who abolished the seasons
- The fifth crêpe
- The king of cheeses
- A revolutionary banquet
- The end of the oyster express
- Revelation in a bottle
- The curse of the green fairy
- Siege gastronomy
- The peanut patrimony
- Gastronomads on the sun road
- A friend in difficult hours
- A mutiny and a laughing cow
- "Bread, peace, and liberty" : the socialist baguette
- Couscous : the assimilation (or not) of empire
- The forgotten vegetables
- Canon Kir joins the resistance
- France and the United States : from liberation to exasperation
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781620972519
- 1620972514
- OCLC:
- 1038043654
- Publisher Number:
- 99977231870
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