Tasting French Terroir: The History of an IdeaUniv of California Press, 2015 - 229 pagina's 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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Early twentiethcentury advertisement for a cocoa and chocolate product | 4 |
Rabelaiss Table and the Poets of the Pléiade | 13 |
Keep drinking youll never die | 16 |
The Plantification of People | 37 |
Portrait of Olivier de Serres from Théâtre dagriculture | 49 |
Courtside Purity and the Académie Françaises | 54 |
Linguistic map of France | 64 |
Terroirs Expulsion | 73 |
Boulainvilliers Du Bos | 114 |
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Late nineteenth or early twentiethcentury labels for imported foods | 131 |
Paris and the Provinces | 133 |
Wine offerings in Paris in the 1760s | 139 |
Gassicourts carte gastronomique of France | 151 |
Terroir and Nation From Geographic | 154 |
Advertisement for Amora Dijon Mustard featuring La Fontaine | 155 |
The potager du roi at Versailles | 81 |
SaintÉvremond and the Invention of Geographical | 93 |
The slopes of Ay depicted on an early twentiethcentury postcard | 97 |
The Oyster Lunch by JeanFrançois de Troÿ | 111 |
Notes | 165 |
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