
- 248 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Terroir and the Culinary Roots of French Identity
- 1 Rabelaisâs Table and the Poets of the PlĂ©iade
- 2 The Plantification of People
- 3 Courtside Purity and the AcadĂ©mie Françaiseâs Attack on the Earth
- 4 Franceâs Green Evolution: Terroirâs Expulsion from Versailles
- 5 Saint-Ăvremond 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