The culinary imagination: from myth to modernity

by Gilbert, Sandra M.

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Title Statements

Full title :The culinary imagination : from myth to modernity / Sandra M. Gilbert.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):W.W. Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 404 páginas : : ilustraciones ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780393067651, 0393067653
oclc:on1030563454
Dewey Decimal:641.013

Part I. Digging in: tastes of past and present -- Add food and stir: life in the virtual kitchen -- Black cake: life (and death) on the food chain -- All that is toothsome? Sacred food, deadly dining -- Master belly and our daily bread: a brief history of the literary kitchen -- Part II. Today's table talk: recipes of the modern -- The kitchen muse: the modernist cookbook and its sequels -- Tastes of clay: the many courses of the culinary memoir -- Bitter herbs or the spices of life? The ambiguities of the transnational foodoir -- Hail to the chef! The cook, the camera, the critic, and the connoisseur -- Cooking the books: cosiness, disgust, desire, despair -- Part III. Food for thought: blessings and curses -- The poetics of ice cream: eating art at the table, in the gallery, and in a grownups' garden of verses -- Food chained: food fights, fears, frauds -- and fantasies.