Food Is Culture

Name: Food Is Culture
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ISBN: 9780231137904

ISBN-10: 0231137907

ISBN-13: 9780231137904

Edition: 2006

Authors: Massimo Montanari, Albert Sonnenfeld

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Description:

The author looks at how the capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food relate to culture and identity. Demonstrating how the history of food is intimately to the transformation of human cultural identities, this work shows how food, originally a practical necessity, became metaphor, discourse, and gastronomy.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.78" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



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


Writing 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