Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime

Allen S. Weiss

ISBN 10: 0791455181 / ISBN 13: 9780791455180

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 2002

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170 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791455181
• ISBN 13: 9780791455180
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.18 kilograms

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Synopsis

The author samples the "fine art" of French cuisine, offering both a rich history and a social, political, and aesthetic look at France's proudest cultural achievement. Simultaneous. (Cookbooks)

About the Author

Allen S. Weiss teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author and editor of over twenty-five books, including The Aesthetics of Excess and Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon, both published by SUNY Press, and (with Lawrence R. Schehr) French Food: On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture.