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Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 10:21:48 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: PLC: TOC: New Book -- Taste, Nostaligia


To provide further food for thought and bibliographical interest --
Reg

TASTE, NOSTALGIA, Edited by Allen S. Weiss, Published by Lusitania Press.

>From the margins of gastronomy to the depths of taste, Lusitania’s 9th Volume,
Taste, Nostalgia is a compendium of culinary delights and anguish.  Food for
body and soul, with rare recipes, lost histories,
perfect dishes, childhood nostalgias, limits of taste, historical origins,
improbable ecstasies, unusual authors and provocative illustrations.

Taste constitutes a sign of individual style, a mode of constituting the self, a
mark of social position, an aesthetic gesture. While inaugurating the most
intimate pleasures, cuisine simultaneously offers an incontrovertible cultural
façade; these pleasures and façades are founded and articulated by childhood
nostalgia, eroticism, ethnography, and the virtuality at the core of the
culinary imagination—the topics of
Taste, Nostalgia. Here, against the solipsism, narcissism and phantasms of what
would be the incommunicable idiosyncrasy of pure subjective taste, must be
counterbalanced the communality, seduction and mythology
of gastronomy.

The choice of authors has been balanced between specialists in gastronomy and
writers from other disciplines who have been enticed to write on the topic for
the first time.  In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher, who taught the crucial role
of autobiographical contemplation in gastronomic writing, the contributors to
this issue of Lusitania have been chosen for their ability to mix genres, reveal
secrets, resolve mysteries and communicate passion—precisely the mix needed to
consider the role of food and eating in their complex contemporary relation to
the other arts.

With essays by:  Allen S. Weiss, Jeff Weinstein, Richard Schechner, Chantal
Thomas, Terri Kapsalis, Rodolphe el-Khoury, Jean-Claude Bonnet, Lydia Vasquez,
Lawrence Schehr, Daniel Spoerri, George Bauer, Clayton Eshleman, Alphonso
Lingis, Mushim, Gregory Whitehead, Ron Scapp, Coco Fusco, Jon McKenzie,
Alexandra Keller, Eve  Jochnowitz.

Art by:  Lothar Baumgarten, William Pope.L, Coco Fusco & Nao Bustamante, Marcel
Broodthaers, Robert Watts, Chrysanne Stathacos & Hunter Reynolds, Perry Bard,
Cody Choi, Larry Miller, Julia Jaquette, Gay Outlaw, John
Miller, Jean Claude Blanc, Rob Wynne, Marilyn Minter, Daniel Spoerri, Maureen
Connor, Rirkrit Taravanija, Jeanne Dunning, Roxy Paine. 




Taste, Nostalgia
ISBN 1-57027-080-5

Distributed by DAP


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