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Food is culture / Massimo Montanari ; translated from the Italian by Albert Sonnenfeld.
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- 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.
- Food habits--History.
- Food habits.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 149 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- "Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food - its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption - represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers were determined by a culture of economics (availability) and medicine (digestibility and nutrition) that led to the development of specific social structures and traditions."--Jacket.
- 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:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0231137907
- 9780231137904
- 0231510780
- 9780231510783
- OCLC:
- 70335145
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