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Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

Accounting for Taste

The Triumph of French Cuisine

262 pages, 8 halftones, 13 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2004

Cloth $25.00

ISBN: 9780226243238   Published June 2004

Paper $22.50

ISBN: 9780226243245   Published September 2006

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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
Subjects



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