Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Food Culture in France
View through CrossRef
French cooking has been seen as the pinnacle of gastronomy. Food Culture in France provides an accessible tour of haute cuisine but also mainly the everyday food culture that sustains the populace. It illuminates the French way of life as well as showing what the popular cooking shows, such as Julia Child’s, were based on. Readers will find the basics discussed in narrative chapters on food history, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical meals, eating out, and diet and health.
The information-packed volume is also indispensable for learning about regional cultivation and specialties that France is so famous for. The French appreciation for seasonal food is illuminated in descriptions of shopping, cooking, and eating habits. All students of French culture and language and Francophiles will benefit from the overview presented here.
Title: Food Culture in France
Description:
French cooking has been seen as the pinnacle of gastronomy.
Food Culture in France provides an accessible tour of haute cuisine but also mainly the everyday food culture that sustains the populace.
It illuminates the French way of life as well as showing what the popular cooking shows, such as Julia Child’s, were based on.
Readers will find the basics discussed in narrative chapters on food history, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical meals, eating out, and diet and health.
The information-packed volume is also indispensable for learning about regional cultivation and specialties that France is so famous for.
The French appreciation for seasonal food is illuminated in descriptions of shopping, cooking, and eating habits.
All students of French culture and language and Francophiles will benefit from the overview presented here.
Related Results
Food Safety
Food Safety
Presenting compelling and current information about some of the most important food safety issues, this book is an invaluable reference for anyone interested in avoiding foodborne ...
Food and Museums
Food and Museums
Museums of all kinds – art, history, culture, science centers and heritage sites – are actively engaging with food through exhibitions, collections, and stories about food producti...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture
The influence of food has grown rapidly as it has become more and more intertwined with popular culture in recent decades. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture offer...
Digital Food
Digital Food
Tania Lewis offers the first critical account of the impact of digital information, media and communication technologies on the realm of food. Encompassing everything from provisio...
Food and Fashion
Food and Fashion
Food and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York’s only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring ove...
A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity
A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity
From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politics, economics and culture. On ...
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia
How much can we learn about a different culture from its food choices, in terms of local produce, preparation and eating habits? In this comprehensive four-volume reference work, K...
Introduction
Introduction
Academic food ethics is vast, incorporating work from philosophy as well as anthropology, economics, environmental sciences and other natural sciences, geography, law, and sociolog...