The Taste Culture Reader
Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Beverages
ISBN :
Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Beverages
ISBN :
Author : Carole Counihan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0415521033
This reader reveals how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. Particular attention is given to how men and women define themselves differently through food choices.
Author : Amy B. Trubek
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 052093413X
How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond wine and into cuisine and culture more broadly. Bringing together lively stories of people farming, cooking, and eating, she focuses on a series of examples ranging from shagbark hickory nuts in Wisconsin and maple syrup in Vermont to wines from northern California. She explains how the complex concepts of terroir and goût de terroir are instrumental to France's food and wine culture and then explores the multifaceted connections between taste and place in both cuisine and agriculture in the United States. How can we reclaim the taste of place, and what can it mean for us in a country where, on average, any food has traveled at least fifteen hundred miles from farm to table? Written for anyone interested in food, this book shows how the taste of place matters now, and how it can mediate between our local desires and our global reality to define and challenge American food practices.
Author : Stanley Lieberson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300083859
What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.
Author : Paul Freedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520254763
This richly illustrated book applies the discoveries of the new generation of food historians to the pleasures of dining and the culinary accomplishments of diverse civilizations, past and present. Freedman gathers essays by French, German, Belgian, American, and British historians to present a comprehensive, chronological history of taste.
Author : Janice A. Radway
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807863971
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice Radway traces the history of the famous mail-order book club from its controversial founding in 1926 through its evolution into an enterprise uniquely successful in blending commerce and culture. Framing her historical narrative with writing of a more personal sort, Radway reflects on the contemporary role of the Book-of-the-Month Club in American cultural history and in her own life. Her detailed account of the standards and practices employed by the club's in-house editors is also an absorbing story of her interactions with those editors. Examining her experiences as a fourteen-year-old reader of the club's selections and, later, as a professor of literature, she offers a series of rigorously analytical yet deeply personal readings of such beloved novels as Marjorie Morningstar and To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich and rewarding, this book will captivate and delight anyone who is interested in the history of books and in the personal and transformative experience of reading.
Author : Jim Drobnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2006-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
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Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231078313
Examines the changes in publishing, movie making, and television programming since the 1960s that have affected Americans' tastes.
Author : Carole Counihan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415917100
This reader reveals how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. Particular attention is given to how men and women define themselves differently through food choices.
Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2011-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691140669
It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. Gikandi focuses on the ways that the enslavement of Africans and the profits derived from this exploitation enabled the moment of taste in European--mainly British--life, leading to a transformation of bourgeois ideas regarding freedom and selfhood. He explores how these connections played out in the immense fortunes made in the West Indies sugar colonies, supporting the lavish lives of English barons and altering the ideals that defined middle-class subjects. Discussing how the ownership of slaves turned the American planter class into a new aristocracy, Gikandi engages with the slaves' own response to the strange interplay of modern notions of freedom and the realities of bondage, and he emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural processes developed by slaves to create spaces of freedom outside the regimen of enforced labor and truncated leisure. Through a close look at the eighteenth century's many remarkable documents and artworks, Slavery and the Culture of Taste sets forth the tensions and contradictions entangling a brutal practice and the distinctions of civility.