Tasting French terroir : the history of an idea / by Parker, Thomas, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : terroir and the culinary roots of French identity -- Rabelais' table and the poets of the Pléiade : from culinary universalism to literary regionalism -- The plantification of people -- Courtside purity and the Académie française's attack on the earth -- France's green evolution : from provincial fields to perfect gardens and terroir's expulsion from Versailles -- Saint-Évremond and the invention of geographical connoisseurship -- Terroir and nation building : the story of Boulainvilliers, du Bos, and the case of class -- The normalization of terroir : Paris and the provinces -- Conclusion : terroir and nation: from geographic identity to psychogeography.…”
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