Food Is Culture by Massimo Montanari (.PDF)
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Food Is Culture (2006) by Massimo Montanari
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Overview: At all times reader-friendly and refreshingly unpedantic, Food Is Culture , by a world-renowned historian of food and culture, is the kind of book that captivates neophytes and dazzles the experts. We witness here a brilliant synthesizing summation of Massimo Montanari’s lifelong refl ections on the culinary questions he has analyzed microscopically as historiographer and medievalist during his distinguished scholarly career. Here he writes not as a culinary historian per se but as an interdisciplinary, always historically grounded anthropologist.
By that I mean that his synthesis is unlike the almost platonically abstract structuralist anthropology of Lévi-Strauss in The Raw and the Cooked . Montanari proceeds diachronically as a historian must; yet he sees nutrition, literature, linguistics, myth, folklore, history, and medicine in the broadest perspective possible, under a macroscope, as it were.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Food & Drink > Food History
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