The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef (eBook)

In Pursuit of the Ideal Meal

Daniel J. Philippon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
406 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5202-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The role of food writing in the sustainable food movement At turns heartfelt and witty, accessible and engaging, The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef explores how Wendell Berry, Carlo Petrini, and Alice Waters have changed America's relationship with food over the past fifty years. Daniel Philippon weighs the legacy of each of these writers and activists while planting and harvesting vegetables in central Wisconsin, speaking with growers and food producers in northern Italy, and visiting with chefs and restaurateurs in southeastern France. Following Berry, Petrini, and Waters in pursuit of his own ';ideal meal,' Philippon considers what a sustainable food system might look like and what role writing can play in making it a reality. Warning of the dangers of ';agristalgia,' Philippon instead advocates for a diverse set of practices he calls ';elemental cooking,' which would define sustainable food from farm to table, while also acknowledging the importance of seeking social justice throughout the food system. A rigorous yet generous appraisal of three central figures in the sustainable food movement, The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef demonstrates how the written word has the power to change our world for the better, one ideal meal at a time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b&w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Agrarianism • agristalgia • Alice Waters • artisanal food • biodynamic farming • Carlo Petrini • chez panisse • community-supported agriculture • cookbooks • Covid-19 pandemic • csa • DONNA HARAWAY • Eataly • Edible Schoolyard • Food Studies • Food Systems • food writing • France • French cuisine • ideal meals • Italy • Materiality • narrative ecocriticism • nonfiction writing • organic agriculture • Piedmont • Practice • Rudolf Steiner • Sir Albert Howard • Situated Knowledge • Slow Food • social change • Spring Hill Community Farm • Sustainable food • sustainable kitchen • the unsettling of america • utopian visions • wendell berry • Wisconsin
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5202-6 / 0813952026
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5202-4 / 9780813952024