Table Comes First Family, France, and the Meaning of Food

Name: Table Comes First Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
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ISBN: 9780307476968

ISBN-10: 0307476960

ISBN-13: 9780307476968

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Authors: Adam Gopnik

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Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“Youstilleat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives? With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts America’s recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes. It is a journey that begins in eighteenth-century France—the birthplace of our…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate and is a contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. His most recent book is Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life, a comparison about how those men changed our nation with their history-making actions.



A Small Starter: Questions of Food



Coming to the Table



Who Made the Restaurant?



What's the Recipe?



E-mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Anchovies, Bacon, Lamb



Choosing at the Table



How Does Taste Happen?



E-Mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Lamb, Saffron, Cinnamon



Meat or Vegetables?



E-Mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Chicken, Pudding, Dogs



Near or Far?



E-Mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Salt, Pork, Mustard



Talking at the Table



In Vino Veritas?



E-Mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Potatoes, Steak, Air



What Do We Write About When We Write About Food?



What Do We Imagine When We Imagine Food?



E-Mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Rice, Milk, Sugar



Leaving the Table



Paris at Last



E-Mail to Elizabeth Pennell: Salmon, Broccoli, Repentance



Endings



Last E-Mailto Elizabeth Pennell


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