Acquired Taste: The French Origins of Modern Cooking
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780801430534
- Book Title
- Acquired Taste : the French Origins of Modern Cooking
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 10.4 in
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Cooking
- Topic
- Regional & Ethnic / French, History
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 262 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801430534
ISBN-13
9780801430534
eBay Product ID (ePID)
806352
Product Key Features
Book Title
Acquired Taste : the French Origins of Modern Cooking
Number of Pages
262 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Topic
Regional & Ethnic / French, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
94-019133
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
641.3/0944
Synopsis
This colorful history of French cooking takes us back before salt and pepper shakers had been dreamed of and explains why we begin with salad and end with dessert. Full of zesty quotes and recipes from period cookbooks and illustrated with wonderful..., This colorful history of French cooking takes us back before salt and pepper shakers had been dreamed of and explains why we begin with salad and end with dessert. Full of zesty quotes and recipes from period cookbooks and illustrated with wonderful still-life paintings, Acquired Taste is a trove of discoveries about cooking techniques and terms that still flourish today. Salt and pepper, salad and dessert-we may take for granted the taste of our food and the sequence of the courses, but European-American cuisine was invented under fascinating circumstances in the mid-seventeenth century. In a book redolent with fresh lore about the history of cookery, T. Sarah Peterson reconstructs the revolution in French cooking that explains why we eat as we do. Bountifully illustrating her story with still-life paintings and recipes from period cookbooks, Peterson explores a change in French cooking in the mid-seventeenth-century-from the heavily sugared, saffroned, and spiced cuisine of the Medieval period to a new style based on salt and acid tastes. In the process, she reveals more fully than any previous writer the links between Medieval cooking, alchemy, and astrology. Peterson's vivid account traces this newly acquired taste in food to its roots in the wider transformation of seventeenth-century culture which included the Scientific Revolution. She makes the startling-and persuasive-argument that the shift in cooking styles was actually part of a conscious effort by humanist scholars to revive Greek and Roman learning and to chase the occult from European life. Such ingredients as artichokes, asparagus, and foie gras reappeared in the kitchens of Europe as part of this invocation of antiquity. The Classical revival succeeded so well in creating a fashion for the salt-acid tastes of Ancient cooking that, by the end of the century, the new cooking dominated European tables. Intended to arouse the appetite in a manner subtle and erotic, modern French cuisine continue to achieve its effect using the very ingredients that teased the Ancients., This colorful history of French cooking takes us back before salt and pepper shakers had been dreamed of and explains why we begin with salad and end with dessert. Full of zesty quotes and recipes from period cookbooks and illustrated with wonderful still-life paintings, Acquired Taste is a trove of discoveries about cooking techniques and terms that still flourish today.
LC Classification Number
TX637.P48 1994
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- 4***8 (25)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseI got this for my brother as a birthday present, and he was very pleased with the condition. Just like the description said, it was like new! And the price for this was great too super happy about that. It came well packaged as well, so the book was protected. Overall a very good seller! I definitely recommend. Thank you for the book, my brother will enjoy reading it.
- 4***n (13)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseEverything as described. Quality, Condition, & Value. Packaged very well. A good overall experience with this seller.Looking Back: Images of North Iowa (#394830793255)
- i***r (311)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseHighly recommend seller. Item as described. Fast shipping and secure packaging. A+++Adventure Bible, Revised, NIV (#393617928365)