All manners of food : eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present

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Title:

Author:

Mennell, Stephen.

ISBN:

9780252064906

9780631132448

Personal Author:

Mennell, Stephen.

Edition:

2nd ed., Illini books ed.

Publication Information:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.

Physical Description:

x, 397 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. The Civilising of Appetite -- 3. Pottages and Potlatch: Eating in the Middle Ages -- 4. From Renaissance to Revolution: Court and Country Food -- 5. From Renaissance to Revolution: France and England - Some Possible Explanations -- 6. The Calling of Cooking: Chefs and their Publics since the Revolution -- 7. The Calling of Cooking: The Trade Press -- 8. Domestic Cookery in the Bourgeois Age -- 9. The Enlightenment of the Domestic Cook? -- 10. Of Gastronomes and Guides -- 11. Food Dislikes -- 12. Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties.

Abstract:

So close geographically, how could France and England be so enormously far apart gastronomically? Not just in different recipes and ways of cooking, but in their underlying attitudes toward the enjoyment of eating and its place in social life. In a new afterword that draws the United States and other European countries into the food fight, Stephen Mennell also addresses the rise of Asian influence and "multicultural" cuisine. All Manners of Food debunks long-standing myths and provides a wealth of information. It is a sweeping look at how social and political development has helped to shape different culinary cultures. Food and almost everything to do with food - fasting and gluttony, cookbooks, women's magazines, chefs and cooks, types of foods, the influential difference between "court" and "country" food - are comprehensively explored and tastefully presented in a dish that will linger in the memory long after the plates have been cleared.

Subject Term:

Food habits -- England -- History.

Food habits -- France -- History.

Food habits -- Social aspects.

Cooking, English -- History.

Cooking, French -- History.

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So close geographically, how could France and England be so enormously far apart gastronomically? Not just in different recipes and ways of cooking, but in their underlying attitudes toward the enjoyment of eating and its place in social life. In a new afterword that draws the United States and other European countries into the food fight, Stephen Mennell also addresses the rise of Asian influence and "multicultural" cuisine.

Debunking myths along the way, All Manners of Food is a sweeping look at how social and political development has helped to shape different culinary cultures. Food and almost everything to do with food, fasting and gluttony, cookbooks, women's magazines, chefs and cooks, types of foods, the influential difference between "court" and "country" food are comprehensively explored and tastefully presented in a dish that will linger in the memory long after the plates have been cleared.