A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521821995)

Modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking were born in the Ancien Regime, radically breaking with culinary traditions that originated in antiquity and creating a new aesthetic. This new culinary culture saw food and wine as important links between human beings and nature. Authentic foodstuffs and simple preparations became the hallmarks of the modern style. Pinkard traces the roots and development of this culinary revolution to many different historical trends, including changes in material culture, social transformations, medical theory and practice, and the Enlightenment. Pinkard illuminates the complex cultural meaning of food in her history of the new French cooking from its origins in the 1650s through the emergence of cuisine bourgeoise and the original nouvelle cuisine in the decades before 1789. This book also discusses the evolution of culinary techniques and includes historical recipes adapted for today's kitchens.

Author: Susan Pinkard
ISBN-10: 0521821991
ISBN-13: 9780521821995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2008
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.36w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2008 pg. 11
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/14/2008 pg. 21
New Yorker (The) 11/24/2008 pg. 121
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 14