A bite-sized history of France
Subtitle: gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment
By: Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell
Contributors: Mitchell, Jeni, author
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781620972519
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Gastronomy; Food habits; Dinners and dining; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Our ancestors, the Gauls; title: The virgin of the kidney; title: Barbarians at the plate; title: Ode to gluttony; title: Left behind : the goats of Poitou; title: The sweetest king; title: They came from the sea; title: Feudal fare; title: Of monks and men; title: Fighting for plums; title: The wine that got away; title: The vegetarian heresy; title: A papal red; title: The white gold of Guérande; title: Legacy of a black prince; title: The vinegar of the four thieves; title: The cheese of emperors and mad kings; title: La dame de beauté and the mushroom mystery; title: Fruits of the Renaissance; title: The mother sauces; title: Conquest and chocolate; title: The culinary contributions of madame serpent; title: A chicken in every pot; title: The chestnut insurgency; title: The bitter roots of sugar; title: The liquor of the gods; title: The crescent controversy; title: War and peas; title: The devil's wine; title: An enlightened approach to food; title: Revolution in the cafés; title: Pain d'égalité; title: The potato propagandist; title: The pyramid provocation; title: The man who abolished the seasons; title: The fifth crêpe; title: The king of cheeses; title: A revolutionary banquet; title: The end of the oyster express; title: Revelation in a bottle; title: The curse of the green fairy; title: Siege gastronomy; title: The peanut patrimony; title: Gastronomads on the sun road; title: A friend in difficult hours; title: A mutiny and a laughing cow; title: "Bread, peace, and liberty" : the socialist baguette; title: Couscous : the assimilation (or not) of empire; title: The forgotten vegetables; title: Canon Kir joins the resistance; title: France and the United States : from liberation to exasperation.