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 --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005