Filter By Authors
Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst.Filter By Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 665Filter By Authors
Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst.Filter By Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 665Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst.
Summary: French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents of history that led to its creation. Accounting for Taste brings these "accidents" to the surface, illuminating the magic of French cuisine and the mystery behind its historical development. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson explains how the food of France became French cuisine. This momentous culinary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2004
View online at OverDrive
Summary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013