Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea
Author:   Thomas Parker
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   54
ISBN:  

9780520277502


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Thomas Parker
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780520277502


ISBN 10:   0520277503
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Terroir and the Culinary Roots of French Identity 1. Rabelais's Table and the Poets of the Pleiade 2. The Plantification of People 3. Courtside Purity and the Academie Francaise's Attack on the Earth 4. France's Green Evolution: Terroir's Expulsion from Versailles 5. Saint-Evremond and the Invention of Geographical Connoisseurship 6. Terroir and Nation Building: Boulainvilliers, Du Bos, and the Case of Class 7. The Normalization of Terroir: Paris and the Provinces Conclusion: Terroir and Nation: From Geographic Identity to Psychogeography Notes Bibliography Index

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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


Author Information

Thomas Parker is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Vassar College. He is the author of Volition, Rhetoric, and Emotion in the Work of Pascal.

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