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The table comes first : family, France, and the meaning of food / Adam Gopnik

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Gopnik, Adam

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 2012Description: 317 p. : illus ; 21 cmISBN:

9780307476968

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DDC classification:

394.1209 GOP

Summary: Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing. With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives? With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts America's recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	394.1209 GOP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		044371

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Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing. With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding heaven in a mouthful. But have we come any closer to discovering the true meaning of food in our lives? With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik takes us on a beguiling journey in search of that meaning as he charts America's recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes.

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