Dwight Furrow

American Foodie (eBook, ePUB)

Taste, Art, and the Cultural Revolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As nutrition, food is essential, but in today's world of excess, a good portion of the world has taken food beyond its functional definition to fine art status. From celebrity chefs to amateur food bloggers, individuals take ownership of the food they eat as a creative expression of personality, heritage, and ingenuity. Dwight Furrow examines the contemporary fascination with food and culinary arts not only as global spectacle, but also as an expression of control, authenticity, and playful creation for individuals in a homogenized, and increasingly public, world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442249301
• Artikelnr.: 44832612

Autorenporträt

Dwight Furrow is professor of philosophy at San Diego Mesa College. He specializes in the philosophy of food and wine, aesthetics, and ethics. He is also a Certified Wine Specialist with certification from the Society of Wine Educators and an advanced level certification from the Wine and Spirits Educational Trust. Furrow is the author of Edible Arts, a blog devoted to food and wine aesthetics. He is also the author of many books, professional journal articles, op-ed pieces, and magazine articles in publications such as the San Diego Union Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Humanist, and Enterprise Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: America Discovers Its Palate
1 We Live from Good Soup
2 Why Food? Why Now?
3 Gathering the Tribes: Revolutionary Food and the People Who Create It
4 From Pleasure to Beauty: If Kant Was at Myhrvold's Table
5 How to Read a Meal: The Flavor of Symbols
6 Can Tuna Casserole Be a Work of Art?
7 Habits and Heresies: Authenticity, Food Rules, and Tradition
8 The Future of Taste
Notes
Index
About the Author