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From Gluttony to Enlightenment

Viktoria von Hoffmann
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17th century
18th century
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Aesthetics
Anthropology of the Senses
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Cooks
Cuisine
Cultural History
Early Modern Europe
Early Modern History
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Food
Food History
Food Studies
France
Historical Anthropology
History of Ideas
History of the Senses
Lower Senses
Senses
Sensory History
Sensory Studies
Taste

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  • ISBN 9780252040641
  • Weight: 513g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Dec 2016
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrée to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world.

Viktoria von Hoffmann explores four kinds of early modern texts--culinary, medical, religious, and philosophical--to follow taste's ascent from the sinful to the beautiful. Combining food studies and sensory history, she takes readers on an odyssey that redefined a fundamental human experience. Scholars and cooks rediscovered a vast array of ways to prepare and present foods. Far-sailing fleets returned to Europe bursting with new vegetables, exotic fruits, and pungent spices. Hosts refined notions of hospitality in the home while philosophers pondered the body and its perceptions. As von Hoffmann shows, these labors produced a sea change in perception and thought, one that moved taste from the base realm of the tongue to the ethereal heights of aesthetics.
About Viktoria von Hoffmann
Viktoria von Hoffmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège.

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