Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture

Contents

Contents Introduction jeremy strong ix Part One: Learning to Taste 1. Feeding Finn lisa harper 3 2. The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food: The Establishment of Soviet Haute Cuisine jukka gronow and sergey zhuravlev 24 3. The Flavor of the Place: Eating and Drinking in Payottenland tim waterman 58 4. National Tastes: Italy and Food Culture matthew hibberd 81 5. Teaching Wine Tasting john ducker 105 Part Two: Theorizing and Contextualizing Taste 6. The (Extensive) Pleasures of Eating lisa heldke 121 7. A Short Poetics of Cruel Food jeremy strong 158 8. “Los Pajaritos del Aire”: Disappearing Menus and After-Dinner Speaking in Don Quixote robert goodwin 194 9. Nourishment, Body and Soul: Modern Performers, Diverse Tastes colin lawson 215 10. Lionizing Taste: Toward an Ecology of Contemporary Connoisseurship roger haden 237 Contributors 291 ...