Pasta : : The Story of a Universal Food /

Pasta : : The Story of a Universal Food / / Silvano Serventi, Françoise Sabban.

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Ranging from the imperial palaces of ancient China and the bakeries of fourteenth-century Genoa and Naples all the way to the restaurant kitchens of today, Pasta tells a story that will forever change the way you look at your next plate of vermicelli. Pasta has become a ubiquitous food, present in r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Serventi, Silvano,
Sabban, Françoise,
TeilnehmendeR:
Shugaar, Antony.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 30 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Preface
  • Note Concerning a Definition of Pasta Products
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Infancy of an Art
  • 2. The Time of the Pioneers
  • 3. From the Hand to the Extrusion Press
  • 4. The Golden Age of the Pasta Manufactory
  • 5. The Industrial Age
  • 6. Pasta Without Borders
  • 7. The Time of Plenty
  • 8. The Taste for Pasta
  • 9. China: Pasta's Other Homeland
  • 10. The Words of Pasta
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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