David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships – between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 – through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors – Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body’s role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book’s arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.
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Pet Food Politics : The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste, … Lire plus
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La libération animale
Peter Singer
Notre attitude à l’égard des animaux est-elle correcte d’un point de vue éthique ? Faut-il étendre aux “bêtes sauvages’” la protection juridique (relative) que nous accordons aux animaux de compagnie ? L’évaluation morale de la souffrance des êtres vivants soulève de vraies questions philosophiques. Aux Etats-Unis et en Allemagne, comme … Lire plus
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Géopolitique du goût : la guerre culinaire
Christian Boudan
La guerre culinaire : cet ouvrage présente une vision nouvelle de la planète culinaire, en propose une interprétation historique en relation avec les grands mouvements d’expansion des peuples : colonisation espagnole de l’Amérique, islamisation de la cuisine orientale, influence de la cuisine décorative de l’Ancien Régime… La situation culinaire actuelle … Lire plus
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Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet
Harvey Levenstein
In this study Harvey Levenstein tells of how from 1880 to 1930, as America’s industries and cities swelled, various reformers tried to use the new nutritional science to make Americans eat more economically and healthily, sometimes with bizarre results. He shows how the disappearance of servants from middle-class kitchens, the … Lire plus