| Author |
Henaut, Stéphane, author.
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| Publication |
New York, NY : New Press, 2018.
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| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file rda |
| Call # |
eBOOK |
| Summary |
"A French cheesemonger and an American academic and ex-pat join forces to serve up a sumptuous history of France and its food, in the delicious tradition of Anthony Bourdain, Peter Mayle, and Pamela Druckerman"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Our ancestors, the Gauls -- The virgin of the kidney -- Barbarians at the plate -- Ode to gluttony -- Left behind : the goats of Poitou -- The sweetest king -- They came from the sea -- Feudal fare -- Of monks and men -- Fighting for plums -- The wine that got away -- The vegetarian heresy -- A papal red -- The white gold of Gurande -- Legacy of a black prince -- The vinegar of the four thieves -- The cheese of emperors and mad kings -- La dame de beaut and the mushroom mystery -- Fruits of the Renaissance -- The mother sauces -- Conquest and chocolate -- The culinary contributions of madame serpent -- A chicken in every pot -- The chestnut insurgency -- The bitter roots of sugar -- The liquor of the gods -- The crescent controversy -- War and peas -- The devil's wine -- An enlightened approach to food -- Revolution in the cafés -- Pain d'égalite -- The potato propagandist -- The pyramid provocation -- The man who abolished the seasons -- The fifth crepe -- The king of cheeses -- A revolutionary banquet -- The end of the oyster express -- Revelation in a bottle -- The curse of the green fairy -- Siege gastronomy -- The peanut patrimony -- Gastronomads on the sun road -- A friend in difficult hours -- A mutiny and a laughing cow -- "Bread, peace, and liberty" : the socialist baguette -- Couscous : the assimilation (or not) of empire -- The forgotten vegetables -- Canon Kir joins the resistance -- France and the United States : from liberation to exasperation -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Gastronomy -- France -- History.
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Food habits -- France -- History.
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Dinners and dining -- Political aspects -- France -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food.
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Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
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Gastronomy. (OCoLC)fst00938901
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289 |
| Genre |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books. |
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Addl. Author |
Mitchell, Jeni, author.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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| Related To |
Print version: Henaut, Stéphane. Bite-sized history of France. New York, NY : New Press, 2018 9781620972519 (DLC) 2018001242 (OCoLC)1038043654 |
| ISBN |
9781620972526 (electronic bk.) |
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1620972522 (electronic bk.) |
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