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The Gastronomica Reader.
Described in the 2008 Saveur 100 as "At the top of our bedside reading pile since its inception in 2001," the award-winning Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture is a quarterly feast of truly exceptional writing on food. Designed both to entertain and to provoke, The Gastronomica R...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editor's Introduction; appetites; Women Who Eat Dirt; Badlands: Portrait of a Competitive Eater; "Don't Eat That": The Erotics of Abstinence in American Christianity; A Shallot; the family table; Delicacy; The Unbearable Lightness of Wartime Cuisine; One Year and a Day: A Recipe for Gumbo and Mourning; The Prize Inside; Messages in a Bottle; dinner, 1933; social constructs; Otto Horcher, Caterer to the Third Reich; The Cooking Ape: An Interview with Richard Wrangham; How Caviar Turned Out to Be Halal.
- "La grande bouffe": Cooking Shows as PornographyRecipe for S & M Marmalade; the art of food; Man Ray's Electricité; Food + Clothing =; Vik Muniz's Ten Ten's Weed Necklace; Zhan Wang: Urban Landscape; The First Still Life; personal journeys; Waiting for a Cappuccino: A Brief Layover along the Spice Trail; Include Me Out; Evacuation Day, or A Foodie Is Bummed Out; Ripe Peach; how others eat; My McDonald's; Great Apes as Food; The Bengali Bonti; The Best "Chink" Food: Dog Eating and the Dilemma of Diversity; close to the earth; Organic in Mexico: A Conversation with Diana Kennedy.
- Mr. Clarence Jones, Carolina Rice Farmer"GM or Death": Food and Choice in Zambia; Wine, Place, and Identity in a Changing Climate; Episode with a Potato; technologies; A Plea for Culinary Modernism: Why We Should Love New, Fast, Processed Food; The Patented Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: Food as Intellectual Property; The Clockwork Roasting Jack, or How Technology Entered the Kitchen; Grinding Away the Rust: The Legacy of Iceland's Herring Oil and Meal Factories; pleasures of the past; A la recherche de la tomate perdue: The First French Tomato Recipe?; The Egg Cream Racket.
- Frightening the GameAlkermes: "A Liqueur of Prodigious Strength"; Food for Thought; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Illustration Credits.