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267 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Bon Appétit!: Food as cultural symbol 12 -- Chapter 2 Rules of the Hunt: Aristocracy's sport finds its way into art 20 -- Chapter 3 Food of the Poor: Don't enquire too closely about what goes into the sausage 28 -- Chapter 4 Feasts at Versailles: Roast peacock, larks' tongues in honey and Louis XIV performs for his guests 34 -- Chapter 5 Fishing for Compliments: François Vatel's suicide over the disgrace of the missing fish 44 -- Chapter 6 Tools of the Trade: But first, Louis XVI grabbed the choicest morsels with his fingers 50 -- Chapter 7 Still Lives: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin influences Matisse, Cézanne and Picasso 56 -- Chapter 8 Dinner at Varennes: Gourmand King Louis XVI becomes prisoner of innkeeper Monsieur Sauce 64 -- Chapter 9 A Painter in a Pear Tree: Cézanne conquers Paris with an apple 70 -- Chapter 10 Humbler Poisons: "Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!" / Dom Pérignon Pérignon, Dom 80 -- Chapter 11 Cheese as a National Symbol: "How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?" / Charles de Gaulle Gaulle, Charles de 88 -- Chapter 12 Rise of the Restaurant: Still open: Le Grand Véfour, which served Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Josephine, George Sand, Colette and Jean Cocteau 94 -- Chapter 13 Blood of Life: "I live on good soup, not on fine words"-Molière 104 -- Chapter 14 An Army Runs on its Stomach: Dining with Napoleon Bonaparte 112 -- Chapter 15 Absinthe, the Green Fairy: "You see things as they really are" / Oscar Wilde Wilde, Oscar 122 -- Chapter 16 Importance of Bread: Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners 130 -- Chapter 17 En Plein Air: Lunch in the garden with Claude Monet 136 -- Chapter 18 Comfort Food: Henri Matisse's codfish paste and devil's potatoes 142 -- Chapter 18 Setting Meals to Music: Paris café life in the operas of Puccini and Rossini 148 -- Chapter 20 Zoo is on the Menu: Voisin's Christmas feast of 1870 156 -- Chapter 21 On The French Riviera: Renoir, Colette, Picasso, Fitzgerald and Hemingway enjoy the flavors of the Côte d'Azur 168 -- Chapter 22 Surreal Cannibals: Dalí, Buñuel and cannibal fantasies 178 -- Chapter 23 Coffee Time: Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus at the Café de Flore, Modigliani at the Rotonde and Toulouse-Lautrec at the Rat Mort 186 -- Chapter 24 Shaken But Not Stirred: Add liquor, jazz and Josephine Baker 194 -- Chapter 25 Melted Camembert and Limp Fried Eggs: Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory 202 -- Chapter 26 Food Front: Surviving the German Occupation by rationing, foraging and "Party Surprise" 210 -- Chapter 27 Chicken From Hell: New French favorites from India, Russia, China and Vietnam 216 -- Chapter 28 Stars of the Stove: Carême and Escoffier to Soyer and Child 226 -- Chapter 29 Food Heaven: The culinary traditions of France 236. |
| Summary |
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour, wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so well of eating says much about the importance of food in French culture. From the crumbs of a madeleine dipped intisane that inspired Marcel Proust to the vast produce market where Emile Zola set one of his finest novels, the French have celebrated the relationship between art and food. By decorating a roasted bird with its plumage before serving it to the court, a 17th century chef transformed the experience of eating and drinking. Soon J.S. Bach's Kaffeekantate was praising coffee, more delicious than a thousand kisses, mellower than muscatel wine. Meanwhile, Madame de Sevigne, from the court of Louis XIV, warned her daughter about drinking too much chocolate, lest she bear a black baby. From Jean-Baptiste Chardin's canvases of peaches and cherries to the apples of Paul Cezanne, painters have found in food a persuasive metaphor for the divinity of nature. Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala included a recipe for Sodomized Entrees. Ernest Hemingway and other expatriates wrote in Paris's cafes. Roman Polanski scripted the black comedy Do You Like Women?, about a Parisian club of gourmet cannibals. Inspired by art, French chefs created dishes as much for the way they looked as for their taste. Thanks to them, we expect food to both sustain our bodies and enrich our spirit. Eating Eternity offers a seductive menu of those places in the French capital where art and food have intersected. Appendices guide you to the restaurant where Napoleon proposed to Josephine, the cafes patronised by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Isadora Duncan and Man Ray, as well as those out-of-the-way sites that bring to life the culinary experience of Paris. Eating Eternity is an invaluable and unique guide to the art and food of Paris. Bon appetit! |
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Gastronomy -- France.
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Dinners and dining -- Social aspects -- France.
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Arts and society -- France -- History.
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Artists -- France -- Social life and customs.
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Cooking in literature.
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Food, art and literature in France |
| ISBN |
9781940842165 (paperback) |
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