Food Culture in France

by Julia Abramson

Book Overview

French cooking has been seen as the pinnacle of gastronomy. Food Culture in France provides an accessible tour of haute cuisine but also mainly the everyday food culture that sustains the populace. It illuminates the French way of life as well as showing what the popular cooking shows, such as Julia Child's, were based on. Readers will find the basics discussed in narrative chapters on food history, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313327971
• ISBN13: 9780313327971
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"