Eating Eternity

Name: Eating Eternity | Food, Art and Literature in France
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Food, Art and Literature in France

John Baxter(Autor*in)

Museyon (Verlag)

Erschienen am 10. Juli 2017

273 Seiten

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Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Bon Appétit!
Food as cultural symbol
Chapter 2: Rules of the Hunt
Aristocracy's sport finds its way into art
Chapter 3: The Food of the Poor
Don't enquire too closely about what goes into the sausage
Chapter 4: Feasts at Versailles
Roast peacock, larks' tongues in honey and Louis XIV performs for his guests
Chapter 5: Fishing For Compliments
François Vatel's suicide over the disgrace of the missing fish
Chapter 6: Tools of the Trade
But first, Louis XVI grabbed the choicest morsels with his fingers
Chapter 7: Still Lives
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin influences Matisse, Cézanne and Picasso
Chapter 8: The Dinner at Varennes
Gourmand King Louis XVI becomes prisoner of innkeeper Monsieur Sauce
Chapter 9: A Painter in a Pear Tree
Cézanne conquers Paris with an apple
Chapter 10: The Humbler Poisons
"Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!" -Dom Pérignon
Chapter 11: Cheese as a National Symbol
"How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?"-Charles de Gaulle
Chapter 12: The Rise of the Restaurant
Still open: Le Grand Véfour, which served Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Josephine, George Sand, Colette and Jean Cocteau
Chapter 13: The Blood of Life
"I live on good soup, not on fine words"-Molière
Chapter 14: An Army Runs On Its Stomach
Dining with Napoleon Bonaparte
Chapter 15: Absinthe, The Green Fairy
"You see things as they really are"-Oscar Wilde
Chapter 16: The Importance of Bread
Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners
Chapter 17: En Plein Air
Lunch in the garden with Claude Monet
Chapter 18: Comfort Food
Henri Matisse's codfish paste and devil's potatoes
Chapter 19: Setting Meals to Music
Paris café life in the operas of Puccini and Rossini
Chapter 20: The Zoo is On the Menu
Voisin's Christmas feast of 1870
Chapter 21: On The French Riviera
Renoir, Colette, Picasso, Fitzgerald and Hemingway enjoy the flavors of the Côte d'Azur
Chapter 22: Surreal Cannibals
Dalí, Buñuel and cannibal fantasies
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
Chapter 24: Shaken But Not Stirred
Add liquor, jazz and Josephine Baker
Chapter 25: Melted Camembert and Limp Fried Eggs
Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory
Chapter 26: The Food Front
Surviving the German Occupation by rationing, foraging and "Party Surprise"
Chapter 27: The Chicken From Hell
New French favorites from India, Russia, China and Vietnam
Chapter 28: Stars of the Stove
Carême and Escoffier to Soyer and Child
Chapter 29: Food Heaven
The culinary traditions of France
A Gastronomical Paris
Index
About the Author

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