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9780791455180

Feast and Folly

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791455180

  • ISBN10:

    0791455181

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

The author samples the "fine art" of French cuisine, offering both a rich history and a social, political, and aesthetic look at France's proudest cultural achievement. Simultaneous. (Cookbooks)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Preface Transcendent or Transcendental?---Cuisine as Fine Art 1(16)
Drunken Space
17(22)
The Ideology of the Pot-au-feu
39(20)
In the Devil's Kitchen
59(14)
The Epic of the Cephalopod
73(12)
Tractatus Logico-Gastronomicus
85(18)
Postface An Introduction to Modern French Cuisine through Several Exemplary Menus 103(22)
Notes 125(24)
Select Bibliography 149(4)
About the Author 153(2)
Index 155

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