Let the meatballs rest, and other stories about food and culture /

Focusing on the selection, preparation, and mythology of food, Montanari shows that cooking not only is a decisive part of our cultural heritage but also communicates essential information about our material and intellectual well-being. From the invention of basic bread making to chocolate's re...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Montanari, Massimo, 1949- (Author)
Other Authors: Brombert, Beth Archer (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
Series:Arts and traditions of the table.
Subjects:
Cooking > History.
Cooking > Philosophy.
Food habits > History.
Food habits > Philosophy.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
Habitudes alimentaires > Philosophie.
COOKING > Courses & Dishes > General.
COOKING > Essays.
COOKING > Methods > General.
COOKING > Reference.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Cooking
Food habits
Matlagning > historia.
Matvanor > historia.
Electronic books.
Cookbook
cookbooks.
Cookbooks
History
Cookbooks.
Livres de cuisine.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Things and ideas
  • The status of food
  • Adventures in cooking
  • The gastronomy of hunger
  • Flavors
  • Pleasure and health
  • The beautiful and the good
  • Convivial rituals
  • Table practices and manners
  • "Identity" declined in the plural.

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