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L'Ordre des mets

L'Ordre des mets

Flandrin, Jean-Louis

Paperback

General ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 2738110525
ISBN13: 9782738110527
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Mar 1 2002
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: French
The order in which food is served at mealtimes has changed considerably over the centuries, and has always varI'd from one country to another 'even among nations that are geographically and culturally close. In the sixteenth-century Spanish Court, for example, food was not served in the same order to everyone, and this discrepancy served to signify differences in social hierarchy.L'Ordre de Mets is a chronological study covering several centuries, as well as a comparative history of food-order etiquette. Jean-Louis Flandrin begins by describing the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the order in which food was served was both strict and complex in France. He then goes on to study food order before and after this period, from the last two centuries of the MI'dle Ages, up to the present day. Finally, he seeks to fI'd the reasons governing food order in France during different eras by comparing it with that of other European countries.Jean-Louis Flandrin concludes by examining the backdrop that is common to each one of the countries studI'd: although nutrition, which is natural, has remained unchanged over the years, gastronomy, which is cultural, has undergone profound changes as our social mores have altered and our knowledge ' particularly medical knowledge ' has grown.Jean-Louis Flandrin is a historian and former head of research at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

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