Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea: 54 (California Studies in Food and Culture) - Hardcover

Parker, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520277503 ISBN 13: 9780520277502

Verlag: University of California Press, 2015

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"An academic, meticulously researched, attentive journey through to the very complex roots of the concept of terroir ... If you're looking for a book that will both fascinate you and challenge all your preconceptions about terroir, France and the French, this is it." -- Tamlyn Currin JancisRobinson.com "Of great value to researchers ... Highly recommended." CHOICE connect "Admirable... Thomas Parker has greatly increased our understanding of the intellectual origins of terroir." Council for European Studies "This book can help the French to answer a question they sometimes ask about why other cultures and countries have not adopted the notion of terroir, even those who share with France the reality of terroir products." Review of Agricultural & Environmental Studies "Innovative and revealing... This is a wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, and well-articulated work." H-France

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This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination of little-known texts from diverse disciplines, Thomas Parker traces terroir's evolution, providing insight into how gastronomic mores were linked to aesthetics in language, horticulture, and painting and how the French used the power of place to define the natural world, explain comportment, and frame France as a nation.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0520277503
• ISBN 13: 9780520277502
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248