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Thomas R. Parker is associate professor and chair of French and Francophone studies at Vassar College. He is author of Volition, Rhetoric, and Emotion in the Work of Pascal and Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea.
""Paranatures in Culinary Culture makes the familiar strange, from farm to table to gullet. Analyzing the peculiarities of food and wine, Thomas R. Parker shows how their incipient vitalities shape the contours of the human and the societies we mistakenly think we control. Parker's notion of paranature alone is worth the price of admission, and his sensorial arguments and historical exemplars bring those insights to life.""—Kennan Ferguson, author of Cookbook Politics ""This is an exciting book, and it’s vital for the field of food studies. In Thomas R. Parker’s elegant writing, the idea of paranature reshapes our understandings of how we ‘assimilate’ food through eating, disgust, digestion, and the stories we tell about food. Paranatures in Culinary Culture opens up vital conversations between food studies and architecture, aesthetics, and art.""—Daniel E. Bender, author of The Food Adventurers: How Around-the-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
