Judging by Chinese records, tea connoisseurs were surely the pioneers of food writing. For nearly 3,000 years, they have been describing its taste, ferreting through the forest for exotic leaves, and ruminating on the spiritual edification of imbibing it. New-fangled enthusiasts…
In today's world, the lives of ancient tea masters, living in mountainside huts and picking tea leaves fresh off wild plants, seem inapplicable to our hectic lives. The Way of Tea shows modern readers how you can bring this serenity to your daily life. You don't need a mountains…
"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 fre…
Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture
by Strong, Jeremy, Strong, Jeremy
fromAt table series
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 freq…
This book is a collection of essays that examine how taste is learned, developed and represented. It spans topics such as teaching wine tasting, food in Don Quixote, Soviet cookbooks, cruel foods and the lambic beers of the Belgian Payottenland. Key themes connect these topics: …
"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 fre…