Journal article
Is Food an Art?
- By Michel Melot
Translated from the French by Cadenza Academic Translations
Pages 6 to 30
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- MELOT, Michel,
- Melot, Michel.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.028.0006
Cite this article
- Melot, Michel.
- MELOT, Michel,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.028.0006
Notes
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[1]
Alexis Lichine, Encyclopédie des vins et des alcools (Paris: Laffont, 1988), 367.
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[2]
According to the studies of the Center of the Sciences of Taste in Dijon. See Le Journal du CNRS 136 (April 2001): 21.
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[3]
Matty Chiva, Le doux et l’amer: Sensation gustative, émotion et communication chez le jeune enfant (Paris: PUF, 1985).
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[4]
See, for example, Catherine Moncoffre, ‘Les éprouvettes du goût’, Mutations “La Gourmandise”, (november 1993) (Paris : Autrement), 162–167.
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[5]
Jeanne Andlauer, “Les saintes tables: Préparer et manger le repas chez le contemplatives,” Ethnologie Française 27 (1997): 39-50.
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[6]
Michel de Certeau, L’Invention du quotidien, vol. 2: Habiter, cuisiner (Paris: Gallimard, 1994).
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For those who still doubt this, we recommend the book by Michel Le Gris, Dionysos crucifié: Essai sur le goût du vin à l’heure de sa production industrielle (Paris: Syllepse, 1999).
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[8]
On these points, as on many others, refer to the pertinent analyses of Claude Fischler, L’homnivore: Le goût, la cuisine et le corps (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1990) (republished in Seuil’s “Points” collection).
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[9]
On the essential role of “experts” in the contemporary art market, see Raymonde Moulin, L’Artiste, l’institution et le marché (Paris: Flammarion, 1992), especially 205-215.
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[10]
Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), Physiologie du goût (Paris: Flammarion, 1990), 362.
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[11]
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Le triangle culinaire,” L’Arc 26 (1965): 19-29.
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[12]
See, for example, Jean-Claude Ribaut, “Ferran Adria, cuisinier déconstructiviste,” Le Monde, June 20, 2001.
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[13]
Decree of August 12, 1993, relating to the Beaufort protected designation of origin.
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[14]
See, among others, Laurence Bérard and Philippe Marchenay, “Lieux, temps et preuves: La construction sociale des produits de terroir,” Terrain 24 (March 1995): 153-164, and “Le Vivant, le culturel et le marchand: Les produits de terroir” in “Vives campagnes, le patrimoine rural, projet de société,” ed. Denis Chevallier, Autrement (May 2000): 191-216. Other works provide exact studies on the establishment of terroir products, particularly Jean-Pierre Warnier, ed., Le Paradoxe de la marchandise authentique: Imaginaire et consommation de masse (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1994), and Michel Rautenberg, André Micoud, Laurence Bérard, and Philippe Marchenay, eds., Campagnes de tous nos désirs: Patrimoines et nouveaux usages sociaux, Collection Ethnologie de la France: Cahiers, 16 (Paris: Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2000).
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[15]
Jack Goody, “The Globalization of Chinese Food,” in Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West (London: Verso, 1998): 161-171.
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[16]
Aline Brochot, “Champagne: objet de culte, object de lutte,” in Campagnes de tous nos désirs, ed. Rautenberg et al., 75-90.
English
Eating well means satisfying all the senses and even more: it represents togetherness, health, and even patriotism. And as technological, economic, and social mediation of this well-being increases, it becomes even more important, against all evidence, to declare it natural.
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