In this stunning and important work, the prominent critic, poet,
and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship with food
and eating through discussions of literature, art, and popular
culture. Focusing on contemporary practices, The Culinary
Imagination traces the social, aesthetic, and political history of
food from myth to modernity, from ancient sources to our current
wave of food mania.
What does it mean to transform raw stuff into cooked dishes,
which then become part of our own bodies; to savor festive meals
yet resolve to renounce gluttony; to act as predators where in
another life we might have become prey? Do the rituals of the
kitchen have different meanings for men and women, for professional
chefs and home cooks? Why, today, do so many of us turn so
passionately toward table topics, on the page, online, and on
screen? What are the philosophical implications of the food chain
on which we all find ourselves?
In The Culinary Imagination, Gilbert addresses these powerful
questions through meditations on myths and memoirs, children s
books, novels, poems, food blogs, paintings, TV shows, and movies.
Discussing figures from Rex Stout to Julia Child and Andy Warhol,
from M. F. K. Fisher and Sylvia Plath to Alice Waters and Peter
Singer, she analyzes the politics and poetics of our daily bread,
investigating our complex self-definitions as producers, consumers,
and connoisseurs of food. The result is an ambitious, lively, and
learned examination of the ways in which our culture s artists have
represented food across a range of genres."
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