Educated Tastes
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Educated Tastes

Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Educated Tastes

Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture

About this book

The old adage "you are what you eat" has never seemed more true than in this era, when ethics, politics, and the environment figure so prominently in what we ingest and in what we think about it. Then there are connoisseurs, whose approaches to food address "good taste" and frequently require a language that encompasses cultural and social dimensions as well. From the highs (and lows) of connoisseurship to the frustrations and rewards of a mother encouraging her child to eat, the essays in this volume explore the complex and infinitely varied ways in which food matters to all of us.
Educated Tastes is a collection of new essays that examine how taste is learned, developed, and represented. It spans such diverse topics as teaching wine tasting, food in Don Quixote, Soviet cookbooks, cruel foods, and the lambic beers of the Belgian Payottenland. A set of key themes connect these topics: the relationships between taste and place; how our knowledge of food shapes taste experiences; how gustatory discrimination functions as a marker of social difference; and the place of ethical, environmental, and political concerns in debates around the importance and meaning of taste. With essays that address, variously, the connections between food, drink, and music; the place of food in the development of Italian nationhood; and the role of morality in aesthetic judgment, Educated Tastes offers a fresh look at food in history, society, and culture.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Untitled
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Part One: Learning to Taste
  7. 1. Feeding Finn
  8. 2. The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food: The Establishment of Soviet Haute Cuisine
  9. 3. The Flavor of the Place: Eating and Drinking in Payottenland
  10. 4. National Tastes: Italy and Food Culture
  11. 5. Teaching Wine Tasting
  12. Part Two: Theorizing andContextualizing Taste
  13. 6. The (Extensive) Pleasures of Eating
  14. 7. A Short Poetics of Cruel Food
  15. “Los Pajaritos del Aire”: Disappearing Menus and After-Dinner Speaking in Don Quixote
  16. 9. Nourishment, Body and Soul: Modern Performers, Diverse Tastes
  17. Lionizing Taste: Toward an Ecology of Contemporary Connoisseurship
  18. Contributors