Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea
Author:   Thomas Parker
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   54
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9780520277519


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Thomas Parker
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780520277519


ISBN 10:   0520277511
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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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


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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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