Opis: The Italian Way: Food and Social Life - Patrizia Faccioli, Douglas Harper

Outside of Italy, the country's culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as "The Italian Way" makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli present a fascinating and colorful look at the Italian table. "The Italian Way" focuses on two dozen families in the city of Bologna, elegantly weaving together Harper's outsider perspective with Faccioli's intimate knowledge of the local customs. The authors interview and observe these families as they go shopping for ingredients, cook together, and argue over who has to wash the dishes. Throughout, the authors elucidate the guiding principle of the Italian table - a delicate balance between the structure of tradition and the joy of improvisation. With its bite-sized history of food in Italy, including the five-hundred-year-old story of the country's cookbooks, and Harper's mouth-watering photographs, "The Italian Way" is a rich repast - insightful, informative, and inviting. ""The Italian Way" is a deep, rich, and complex analysis of food practices and the way they implicate and are involved in every aspect of society. The descriptions of the meals are elegantly informal, but probing and informative. The photographs are integral to those descriptions--not illustrations of some points the authors make, but points in their own right. Along the way you gain a complicated understanding of the nature of a 'proper' Italian meal: what it has to contain, how it has to be served, what the acceptable limits of variation are, and many other things. I've seldom read a work of sociology that left me feeling I had learned so much I didn't know."--Howard S. Becker, author of "Tricks of the Trade "and "Telling About Society"
--Howard S. Becker

Szczegóły: The Italian Way: Food and Social Life - Patrizia Faccioli, Douglas Harper

Tytuł: The Italian Way: Food and Social Life
Autor: Patrizia Faccioli, Douglas Harper
Producent: Uniwersity of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226317243
Rok produkcji: 2010
Ilość stron: 352
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.93 kg

Recenzje: The Italian Way: Food and Social Life - Patrizia Faccioli, Douglas Harper