Accounting for Taste
The Triumph of French Cuisine
262 pages, 8 halftones, 13 line drawings 6 x 9
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2004
Cloth $25.00
ISBN: 9780226243238
Published June 2004
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226243245
Published September 2006
Related links: Read an excerpt on the film Babette's Feast.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Eating Orders 1. Culinary Configurations I. Culinary Identities II. French Cuisines 2. Inventing French Cuisine I. Between the Old Regime and the New II. The Cuisine 3. Readings in a Culinary Culture I. From Cuisine to Gastronomy II. Food Talk III. The Gastronomic Field 4. Food Nostalgia I. In Search of Cuisine Lost II. Country Cooking III. Cooking and Chefing 5. Consuming Passions I. Conspicuous Cuisines II. Identifying Cuisines III. Tasting France Epilogue: Babette’s Feast: A Fable for Culinary France Appendix A Bibliography—Cookery Works by Date of Original Publication Appendix B Sample of Cookbooks—Bibliographie de la France, 1811-98 Appendix C Research Notes Notes Bibliography Index
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