ISBN:
9780231152501
,
9780231526937
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 116 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Terpstra, Nicholas [Rezension von: Montanari, Massimo, Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb] 2012
Series Statement:
Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
Uniform Title:
Formaggio con le pere. 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb
DDC:
394.1/2
Keywords:
Proverbs, Italian History and criticism
;
Food habits History
Abstract:
"Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the extremely well known yet hard to decipher saying. Intrigued by this proverb, which has endured since the Middle Ages, Massimo Montanari launches an adventurous history of its origins and utility. Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary treatises, literary works, and anthologies of beloved proverbs, Montanari finds in the nobility's demanding palettes and delicate stomachs a deep love of cheese with pears from medieval times onward. At first, cheese and its visceral, earthy pleasures was treated as the food of Po
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Preface; Acknowledgments; One - A Proverb to Decipher; Two - A Wedding Announcement; Three - Peasant Fare; Four - When Rustic Food Becomes the Fashion; Five - A Hard Road to Ennoblement; Six - The Ideologyof Difference and Strategies of Appropriation; Seven - A High-Born Fruit; Eight - When Desire Conflicts with Health; Nine - Peasants and Knights; Ten - To Savor (To Know) / Taste (Good Taste); Eleven - How a Proverb Is Born; Twelve - "Do Not Share Pears with Your Master"; References; Index; Copyright Page;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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