Cooking : the quintessential art / Hervé This and Pierre Gagnaire ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
by
This, Hervé.
ISBN
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9780520252950
Title
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Cooking : the quintessential art / Hervé This and Pierre Gagnaire ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
Author
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This, Hervé.
Personal Author
:
This, Hervé.
Publication Information
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Physical Description
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355 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
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Two Introductions -- Pt. 1. The Beautiful Is the Good -- 1. The Existence of a Culinary Art -- 2. Artisanal versus Artistic Cuisine -- 3. Tradition and Love -- 4. The Question of Nature -- 5. The Recognition of a Culinary Art -- Pt. 2. Classical Ideas of Beauty -- 6. The Origin of Beauty -- 7. Beauty by Numbers -- 8. The Idea of Flavor -- 9. Aristotle and Subtlety -- Pt. 3. Beauty in the Middle Ages -- 10. The Path to the Mystical Good -- 11. Of Cooking and Cathedrals -- 12. Boethius and the Brain -- 13. Thomas Aquinas and the Green of the Grass -- 14. Drawing Earth Nearer to Heaven -- Pt. 4. Artistic Creativity Unbound -- 15. Medieval Ramifications -- 16. The Occult Influence of Aristotle Lives On -- 17. The Dawn of the Renaissance -- 18. From the Renaissance Onward -- 19. The Enlightenment in the West and the East -- 20. Nature Overcome -- Pt. 5. The Present and Future of Cooking -- 21. The Many Strands of Modernity -- 22. Yesterday -- 23. And Tomorrow?
24. Simplicity and Completeness -- 25. The Illusion of the Perfect Bouillon.
Subject Term
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Gastronomy -- History.
Added Author
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Gagnaire, Pierre, 1950-
Format
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Books
Publication Date
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2008
Publication Information
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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641.013 THI | Book | 1 | Standard shelving location | Standard shelving location |