Political Gastronomy: Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World

by Michael A. LaCombe

Book Overview

"The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is decided at a banquet."--Jean Anth lme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244184
• ISBN13: 9780812244182
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"