Food is culture

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Montanari Massimo 1949-
Published: Columbia University Press,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Arts and traditions of the table
Subjects:
Item Description: Cibo come cultura.
Carrier Form: xii, 149 p.: ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 0231137907 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780231137904 (hard cover : alk. paper)
0231510780 (electronic : alk. paper)
9780231510783 (electronic : alk. paper)
Index Number: TS971
CLC: TS971-09
Call Number: TS971-09/M764
Contents: Includes index.
Translated from the Italian.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 to