The Taste Culture Reader
Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Beverages
ISBN :
Author : Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher :
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Beverages
ISBN :
Author : Carole Counihan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 39,71 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 : 13,38 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 : 42,1 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 : 11,89 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 : 38,62 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 : 17,87 MB
Release : 2006-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
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Author : John Prescott
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1861899513
The human tongue has somewhere up to eight thousand taste buds to inform us when something is sweet, salty, sour, or bitter—or as we usually think of it—delicious or revolting. Tastes differ from one region to the next, and no two people’s seem to be the same. But why is it that some people think maple syrup is too sweet, while others can’t get enough? What makes certain people love Roquefort cheese and others think it smells like feet? Why do some people think cilantro tastes like soap? John Prescott tackles this conundrum in Taste Matters, an absorbing exploration of why we eat and seek out the foods that we do. Prescott surveys the many factors that affect taste, including genetic inheritance, maternal diet, cultural traditions, and physiological influences. He also delves into what happens when we eat for pleasure instead of nutrition, paying particularly attention to affluent Western societies, where, he argues, people increasingly view food selection as a sensory or intellectual pleasure rather than a means of survival. As obesity and high blood pressure are on the rise along with a number of other health issues, changes in the modern diet are very much to blame, and Prescott seeks to answer the question of why and how our tastes often lead us to eat foods that are not the best for our health. Compelling and accessible, this timely book paves the way for a healthier and more sustainable understanding of taste.
Author : Stanley Tucci
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982168013
"From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate ... memoir of life in and out of the kitchen"--
Author : John Styles
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.