Consuming Culture: The Arts of the French Table
Used - This volume aims to add to the rich tradition of exegesis on the place of food and drink in French society and culture. It deals predominantly with literary representations of eating and drinking, past and present, and covers topics ranging from gastronomy to anorexia, from sobriety to ebriety, and from overt to covert food practices. All the literary genres are represented, including pantomime and "l'C)criture gourmande," and the essays presented here also cover a variety of periods, fro