num_pages: 376
description: Described in the 2008 Saveur 100 as At the top of our bedside reading pile since its inception in 2001 the award-winning Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture is a quarterly feast of truly exceptional writing on food. Designed both to entertain and to provoke The Gastronomica Reader now offers a sumptuous sampling from the journals pagesincluding essays poetry interviews memoirs and an outstanding selection of the artwork that has made Gastronomica so distinctive. In words and images it takes us around the globe through time and into a dazzling array of cultures investigating topics from early hominid cooking to Third Reich caterers to the Shiite clergy under Ayatollah Khomeini who deemed Iranian caviar fit for consumption under Islamic law. Informed throughout by a keen sense of the pleasures of eating tasting and sharing food The Gastronomica Reader will inspire readers to think seriously widely and deeply about what goes onto their plates.Gastronomica is a winner of the Utne Reader's Independent Press Award for Social/Cultural Coverage
language: English
title: The Gastronomica Reader
publisher: University of California Press