Tasting French Terroir
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Tasting French Terroir

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
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Tasting French Terroir

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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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780520961333
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Culinary Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Terroir and the Culinary Roots of French Identity
  8. 1 Rabelais’s Table and the Poets of the PlĂ©iade
  9. 2 The Plantification of People
  10. 3 Courtside Purity and the AcadĂ©mie Française’s Attack on the Earth
  11. 4 France’s Green Evolution: Terroir’s Expulsion from Versailles
  12. 5 Saint-Évremond and the Invention of Geographical Connoisseurship
  13. 6 Terroir and Nation Building: Boulainvilliers, Du Bos, and the Case of Class
  14. 7 The Normalization of Terroir: Paris and the Provinces
  15. Conclusion: Terroir and Nation: From Geographic Identity to Psychogeography
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index