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Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local seasonal organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows the true value of food and looked with distaste on the culinary practices of its predecessors. Not so long ago eating food from around the world was the mark of the cultural sophisticate. In The Table Comes First Adam Gopnik envisions a new 'physiology of taste' which will enable us to dispense with this moralising attitude and concentrate on the pleasure principle: food is to be enjoyed and to help us enjoy life in turn. Above all the dining table should be the heart of the family the place where all real family begins.To show this we are taken through the courses from starters to desserts from the establishment of the first restaurants in Paris in the early 19th century to the green movement of the present day in a witty and erudite narrative interspersed with delightful anecdotes ranging from making souffles for Derrida (hint: the perfect souffle is determined by the ineffable 'zone' between peaks and troughs) to hunting the lost recipe for 'Steack Boston'.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    One of the finest essayists of the age takes us on an entertaining journey through just what it means for food to be 'good'. Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't...

  • 1849162867
  • 9781849162869
  • Adam Gopnik
  • 29 September 2011
  • Quercus Publishing Plc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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