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Analyzing the effects of corporate-driven industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomy

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"A thought-provoking examination of the interpenetration, not opposition, of haute cuisine and the mass-market industry.… This book, ironic rather than tragic, is about paradoxes involving an entente between the carefully defined and protected image of gastronomy and the American-inspired sectors of agribusiness, supermarkets, and frozen food…. French Gastronomy is revealing at every turn and tells a curious and convincing story of philosophical and historical import."— Journal of Modern History

French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 09/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9781439912294, 978-1439912294
      ISBN10: 1439912297
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      National and regional cuisine Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Analyzing the effects of corporate-driven industrial processes on the practices, and the practitioners, of French gastronomy

      Trade Review
      "A thought-provoking examination of the interpenetration, not opposition, of haute cuisine and the mass-market industry.… This book, ironic rather than tragic, is about paradoxes involving an entente between the carefully defined and protected image of gastronomy and the American-inspired sectors of agribusiness, supermarkets, and frozen food…. French Gastronomy is revealing at every turn and tells a curious and convincing story of philosophical and historical import."— Journal of Modern History

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