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The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity
The Culinary Imagination From Myth to Modernity Author:Sandra M. Gilbert From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food.Just about everyone lately is fascinated by food. Our literature and popular culture prove it. We face an ever-expanding pantry of culinary poems, memoirs, histories, and travelogues, not to mention polemics debating the poli... more »tics of the table, analyzing the medical rights and wrongs of eating, and investigating the morality of the contemporary food chain. Visual artists have long focused on luscious still lifes of food; now movies and television programs also glamorize cooks, cooking, and eating. In The Culinary Imagination, Sandra M. Gilbert traces our gastronomic ideas through myths and memoirs, novels, poems, television ?soup operas,? food blogs, paintings, and movies?from Rex Stout and Julia Child to M. F. K. Fisher and Sylvia Plath, Andy Warhol and Jonathan Safran Foer. The Culinary Imagination is a wide ranging, erudite survey of the ways in which our culture?s artists have represented food in a range of genres, from one of our most revered scholars.« less