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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790116803321

Titolo

Educated tastes : food, drink, and connoisseur culture / / edited and with an introduction by Jeremy Strong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-280-49779-3

9786613593023

0-8032-3813-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 292 pages)

Collana

At table

Altri autori (Persone)

StrongJeremy

Disciplina

394.1/2

Soggetti

Food habits

Drinking customs

Taste - Social aspects

Gourmets

Food - Social aspects

Beverages - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Untitled; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Learning to Taste; 1. Feeding Finn; 2. The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food: The Establishment of Soviet Haute Cuisine; 3. The Flavor of the Place: Eating and Drinking in Payottenland; 4. National Tastes: Italy and Food Culture; 5. Teaching Wine Tasting; Part Two: Theorizing and Contextualizing Taste; 6. The (Extensive) Pleasures of Eating; 7. A Short Poetics of Cruel Food; "Los Pajaritos del Aire": Disappearing Menus and After-Dinner; Speaking in Don Quixote; 9. Nourishment, Body and Soul: Modern Performers, Diverse Tastes; Lionizing Taste: Toward an Ecology of Contemporary Connoisseurship; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The old adage "you are what you eat" has never seemed more true than in this era, when ethics, politics, and the environment figure so prominently in what we ingest and in what we think about it. Then there are connoisseurs, whose approaches to food address "good taste" and frequently require a language that encompasses cultural and social



dimensions as well. From the highs (and lows) of connoisseurship to the frustrations and rewards of a mother encouraging her child to eat, the essays in this volume explore the complex and infinitely varied ways in which food matters to all of us.