Food is culture
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Published: |
Columbia University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Arts and traditions of the table |
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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 |