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Word of Mouth - What We Talk About When We Talk About Food (Hardcover)
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Word of Mouth - What We Talk About When We Talk About Food (Hardcover)
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 50
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Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of
it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even
trump consumption. Where many works look at the production,
preparation, and consumption of food, "Word of Mouth" captures the
language that explains culinary practices. Explanation is more than
an elaboration here: how we talk about food says a great deal about
the world around us and our place in it.
What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a
globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change? Answers to
this question demand a mastery of food talk in all its forms and
applications. To prove its case, "Word of Mouth" draws on a broad
range of cultural documents from interviews, cookbooks, and novels
to comic strips, essays, and films.
Although the United States supplies the primary focus of
Ferguson's explorations, the French connection remains vital.
American food culture comes of age in dialogue with French cuisine
even as it strikes out on its own. In the twenty-first century,
culinary modernity sets haute food against haute cuisine,
creativity against convention, and the individual dish over the
communal meal. Ferguson finds a new level of sophistication in what
we thought that we already knew: the real pleasure in eating comes
through knowing how to talk about it.
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