Word Of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food (california Studies In Food And Culture)
by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson /
2014 / English / EPUB
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Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of
it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can
even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production,
preparation, and consumption of food,
Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of
it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can
even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production,
preparation, and consumption of food,Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth
captures the language that explains culinary practices.
Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about
food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in
it.
captures the language that explains culinary practices.
Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about
food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in
it.
What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a
globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change?
Answers to this question demand a mastery of food talk in all its
forms and applications. To prove its case,
What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a
globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change?
Answers to this question demand a mastery of food talk in all its
forms and applications. To prove its case,Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth
draws on a broad range of cultural documents from interviews,
cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films.
draws on a broad range of cultural documents from interviews,
cookbooks, and novels to comic strips, essays, and films.
Although the United States supplies the primary focus of
Ferguson's explorations, the French connection remains vital.
American food culture comes of age in dialogue with French
cuisine even as it strikes out on its own. In the twenty-first
century, culinary modernity sets haute food against haute
cuisine, creativity against convention, and the individual dish
over the communal meal. Ferguson finds a new level of
sophistication in what we thought that we already knew: the real
pleasure in eating comes through knowing how to talk about it.
Although the United States supplies the primary focus of
Ferguson's explorations, the French connection remains vital.
American food culture comes of age in dialogue with French
cuisine even as it strikes out on its own. In the twenty-first
century, culinary modernity sets haute food against haute
cuisine, creativity against convention, and the individual dish
over the communal meal. Ferguson finds a new level of
sophistication in what we thought that we already knew: the real
pleasure in eating comes through knowing how to talk about it.