The Culinary Imagination

From Myth to Modernity

Sandra M. Gilbert (University of California, Davis)

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WW Norton & Co
26 September 2014

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Food & society; Cookery, food & drink

"It seems that everyone today is fascinated by food. Literature and popular culture prove it. We face an ever-expanding pantry of culinary poems, memoirs, histories and travelogues, not to mention polemics debating the politics of the table, analysing the medical rights and wrongs of eating, and investigating the morality of the contemporary food chain. Visual artists have long focused on still lifes of food; now films and television programmes glamourise cooks, cooking and eating.

In The Culinary Imagination, the revered scholar Sandra M. Gilbert traces our gastronomic ideas through myths and memoirs, novels, poems, television ""soup operas"", food blogs, paintings and films. The Culinary Imagination is a wide ranging, erudite survey of the ways in which our culture's artists have represented food in a range of genres."

By: Sandra M. Gilbert (University of California Davis)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 761g
ISBN: 9780393067651
ISBN 10: 0393067653
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 26 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sandra M. Gilbert is a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Reviews for The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity

It is hard to imagine how Sandra Gilbert could have produced so broad an overview of contemporary food writing and thought, not only literary analysis but also history, memoir ( foodoir! ), and bibliography. Anyone wanting an introduction to the meaning of food culture should start here. --Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studie