The Culinary Imagination by Gilbert, Sandra M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents Foreword: Romance in Food! Part I. Digging In: Tastes of Past and Present

1. Add Food and Stir: Life in the Virtual Kitchen

Eating Words Burgers and Mâche Tales of American Culinary Transformation Firing Up the Stove in the Sixties

2. Black Cake: Life (and Death) on the Food Chain

What We Eat—and What We Are Cooking—and Coping The Funeral Baked Meats The Pulse of the Kitchen

3. All That Is Toothsome? Sacred Food, Deadly Dining

The Powers of the Cook The Powers of Food

4. Master Belly and Our Daily Bread: A Brief History of the Literary Kitchen

Transcendental Gastronomy? The Morality of Renunciation The Morality of Celebration

Part II. Today’s Table Talk: Recipes of the Modern

5. The Kitchen Muse: The Modernist Cookbook and Its Sequels

Changing Times and Tables Spaghetti and Beans? A Rape of the Icebox The Modernist Fruit Bowl A Sudden Slice Changes the Whole Plate Sculpted Meat

6. Tastes of Clay: The Many Courses of the Culinary Memoir

Feeding the Foodoir A Portrait of the Transcendental Gastronome as a Young Woman Two Portraits of a Hunger Artist as a Young Woman

7. Bitter Herbs or the Spices of Life? The Ambiguities of the Transnational Foodoir

How I Ate and Who I Am Ubi Panis, Ibi Patris? The Redeemed Kitchen

8. Hail to the Chef! The Cook, the Camera, the Critic, and the Connoisseur

Soup Operas: Mysteries of the Kitchen Unveiled We Love Julia Viagra in the Kitchen Lights! Camera! Eat! Molly, Miriam, Brenda, Chloe, Betty, Toni, Emily

9. Cooking the Books: Cosiness, Disgust, Desire, Despair

In the First Kitchen Mealtime Mayhem Just Desserts Nausea Plenitude Ghost Milk

Part III. Food for Thought: Blessings and Curses

Eating the Body of Art The Meat of the Matter Blessing the Ice and the Cream The Imperatives of Pleasure The Flesh Made Word

11. Food Chained: Food Fights, Fears, Frauds—and Fantasies

Diets and Diatribes Dystopias Disorders and Diseases Postmodern Pastorals

Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Credits Index Praise for THE CULINARY IMAGINATION Also by Sandra M. Gilbert Copyright