Italian Cuisine : : A Cultural History / / Alberto Capatti, Massimo Montanari.

Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and has led to the common conception of Italian fo...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 75 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Introduction: Identity as Exchange
  • Chapter One Italy: A Physical and Mental Space
  • Chapter Two: The Italian Way of Eating
  • Chapter Three: The Formation of Taste
  • Chapter Four: The Sequence of Dishes
  • Chapter Five: Communicating Food: The Recipe Collection
  • Chapter Six: The Vocabulary of Food
  • Chapter Seven: The Cook, the Innkeeper, and the Woman of the House
  • Chapter Eight: Science and Technology in the Kitchen
  • Chapter Nine: Toward a History of the Appetite
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index