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From the formula book to the super star chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food. In this particular stunning and important work, the visible critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our marriage with food and eating through conversations of literature, art work, and popular culture. Focusing on contemporary methods, The Culinary Creativity traces the public, aesthetic, and politics background of food from misconception to modernity, from historical sources to our current wave of food mania. Exactly what does it signify to transform fresh stuff into cooked dishes, which in turn become part of our own bodies; to take pleasure from festive meals yet take care of to renounce gluttony; to act as predators where in another life we might have become prey? Do the rituals of the kitchen have different meanings for men and women, for professional chefs and home cooks? Why, today, accomplish that most of us switch so passionately toward desk matters, on the site, online, and on display? What exactly are the philosophical implications of the food chain which most of us find ourselves? In The Culinary Creativity, Gilbert addresses these powerful questions through meditations on common myths and memoirs, children's literature, novels, poems, food sites, paintings, TV shows, and movies. Talking about characters from Rex Stout to Julia Child and Andy Warhol, from M. F. K. Fisher and Sylvia Plath to Alice Waters and Peter Singer, she analyzes the politics and poetics of our day to day bread, investigating our complex self-definitions as manufacturers, consumers, and connoisseurs of food. The effect can be an ambitious, energetic, and learned examination of the ways that our culture's musicians and artists have symbolized food across a range of genres.
