Last chance to eat : the fate of taste in a fast food world / Gina Mallet.
Last chance to eat : the fate of taste in a fast food world / Gina Mallet.
Last chance to eat : the fate of taste in a fast food world / Gina Mallet.
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New York : W. W. Norton, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N641.013/25
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English
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384 p. ; 18 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the first enchantment -- Ch. 1. The imperiled egg -- Ch. 2. The last Brie -- Ch. 3. The ox is gored -- Ch. 4. The last kitchen garden -- Ch. 5. A good fish is hard to find.
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New York : W. W. Norton, 2004.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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"Where has all the good food gone? This is the question at the heart of Gina Mallet's account of the fate of food. In the last fifty years, we have gone from loving food to fearing it, frightened by food science and spooked by medical doctors, and so old familiar foods and recipes, the threads of community, are being lost.".
"Lingering over every sensual memory of forgotten taste, Mallet traces the vicissitudes of five popular foods, their history and their predicament: how the egg that made the souffle supreme has been brought near to extinction by science and a pathogen; how the war against bacteria is widening the cultural gulf between Europe and America and endange...
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Last chance to eat : the fate of taste in a fast food world / Gina Mallet.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N641.013/25
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74VKP32lGELd
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0393058417 (hardcover)
9780393058413 (hardcover)
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641.013
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991019614579702626
