Tasting French Terroir (eBook)

The History of an Idea

Thomas Parker (Autor)

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2015
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96133-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination of little-known texts from diverse disciplines, Thomas Parker traces terroir’s evolution, providing insight into how gastronomic mores were linked to aesthetics in language, horticulture, and painting and how the French used the power of place to define the natural world, explain comportment, and frame France as a nation.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Terroir and the Culinary Roots of French Identity
1. Rabelais’s Table and the Poets of the Pleiade
2. The Plantification of People
3. Courtside Purity and the Academie Francaise’s Attack on the Earth
4. France’s Green Evolution: Terroir’s Expulsion from Versailles
5. Saint-Evremond and the Invention of Geographical Connoisseurship
6. Terroir and Nation Building: Boulainvilliers, Du Bos, and the Case of Class
7. The Normalization of Terroir: Paris and the Provinces
Conclusion: Terroir and Nation: From Geographic Identity to Psychogeography

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2015
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: cooking • Culinary • Culinary history • culinary history in france • culinary studies • Europe • food and agriculture in france • Food and culture • food and wine • food in France • food in french culture • frances food regions • frances green evolution • french culinary • French culture • French dining • french food • French food and wine • French history • French identity • french wine • gastronomic mores • Gastronomy • geography of food in france • regional foods in france
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96133-1 / 0520961331
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96133-3 / 9780520961333