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Tasting French terroir : the history of an idea /
"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 evolved between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | California studies in food and culture ;
54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : terroir and the culinary roots of French identity
- Rabelais' table and the poets of the Pléiade : from culinary universalism to literary regionalism
- The plantification of people
- Courtside purity and the Académie française's attack on the earth
- France's green evolution : from provincial fields to perfect gardens and terroir's expulsion from Versailles
- Saint-Évremond and the invention of geographical connoisseurship
- Terroir and nation building : the story of Boulainvilliers, du Bos, and the case of class
- The normalization of terroir : Paris and the provinces
- Conclusion : terroir and nation: from geographic identity to psychogeography.