A bite-sized history of France : gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment, Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell

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A bite-sized history of France : gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment, Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell

Title remainder

gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment

Statement of responsibility

Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell

Instantiates

• A bite-sized history of France : gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment

Publication

• New York, The New Press, 2018

Copyright

• ©2018

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-319) and index

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volume

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nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

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 Guérande -- Legacy of a black prince -- The vinegar of the four thieves -- The cheese of emperors and mad kings -- La dame de beauté 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'égalité -- The potato propagandist -- The pyramid provocation -- The man who abolished the seasons -- The fifth crêpe -- 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

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1038043654

Dimensions

22 cm

Extent

ix, 333 pages

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9781620972519

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2018001242

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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n

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40028339086

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illustrations, map

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http://search.mel.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb37310531

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(OCoLC)1038043654