Food Is Culture by Massimo Montanari
Explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food - its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption. This book shows how food, once a practical necessity, evolved into an indicator of social standing and religious and political identity.
A worthwhile indulgence-- Eve Lichtgarn Associated Content To read this disarming collection of brief essays is to witness a superbly stocked mind grappling with matters that are vital to human survival. -- Tim Morris Wilson Quarterly Montanari here has provided students of anthropology with a wonderful text... Recommended. Library Journal Eloquent and shrewd. -- Ken Hirschkop Radical Philosophy
Massimo Montanari is professor of medieval history and history of food at the University of Bologna. He has achieved wide recognition for his many searching and thoroughly researched studies of culinary traditions. Since 1979 he has authored and coauthored more than a dozen books, including Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History (Columbia), Food: A Culinary History (Columbia), Famine and Plenty: The History of Food in Europe, and the recent Bologna la Grassa. Albert Sonnenfeld, longtime professor of Romance languages and literature at Princeton and Chevalier Professor of French/Italian at the University of Southern California, is series editor for Columbia University Press's Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History, which has published his translations of Giovanni Rebora's Culture of the Fork and Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari's Food: A Culinary History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231137904 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231137907 |
| Title | Food Is Culture |
| Author | Massimo Montanari |
| Series | Arts And Traditions Of The Table: Perspectives On Culinary History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
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