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Aniel Boulud and Jacues Pépin Not a history of French cuisine Accounting for Taste focuses on the people places and institutions that have made this cuisine what it is today a privileged vehicle for national identity a model of cultural ascendancy and a pivotal site for Taste The Kindle #209 where practice and performance intersect With sources as various as the novels of Balzac and Proust interviews with contemporary chefs such as David Bouley and Charlie Trotter and the film Babette's Feast Ferguson maps the cultural field that structures culinary affairs in France and then exports its crucial ingredients What's well beyond food the intricate connections between cuisine and. I obtained a copy of this book from the publishers a few months ago during a promotion This
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Accounting for Taste The Triumph of French CuisineCountry between local practice and national identity illuminate the concept of culture for Taste The Triumph of eBook #9734 itselfTo Brillat Savarin's famous dictum Animals fill themselves people eat intelligent people alone know how to eat Priscilla Ferguson adds and Accounting for Taste shows how the truly intelligent also know why they eat the way they do “Parkhurst Ferguson has her nose in the right place and an infectious lust for her subject that makes this trawl through the history and cultural significance of French food from French Revolution to Babette’s Feast via Balzac’s suppers and Proust’s madeleines a satisfying meal of varied courses” Ian Kelly Times U. This is very much an academic study of the meaning and uses of cuisine as a phenomenon spec