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Is Food an Art?

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  • Melot, M.
(2011). Is Food an Art? Médium, No 28(3), 6-30. https://doi.org/10.3917/mediu.028.0006.

  • Melot, Michel.
« Is Food an Art? ». Médium, 2011/3 No 28, 2011. p.6-30. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-medium-2011-3-page-6?lang=en.

  • MELOT, Michel,
2011. Is Food an Art? Médium, 2011/3 No 28, p.6-30. DOI : 10.3917/mediu.028.0006. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-medium-2011-3-page-6?lang=en.

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Notes

  • [1]
    Alexis Lichine, Encyclopédie des vins et des alcools (Paris: Laffont, 1988), 367.
  • [2]
    According to the studies of the Center of the Sciences of Taste in Dijon. See Le Journal du CNRS 136 (April 2001): 21.
  • [3]
    Matty Chiva, Le doux et l’amer: Sensation gustative, émotion et communication chez le jeune enfant (Paris: PUF, 1985).
  • [4]
    See, for example, Catherine Moncoffre, ‘Les éprouvettes du goût’, Mutations “La Gourmandise”, (november 1993) (Paris : Autrement), 162–167.
  • [5]
    Jeanne Andlauer, “Les saintes tables: Préparer et manger le repas chez le contemplatives,” Ethnologie Française 27 (1997): 39-50.
  • [6]
    Michel de Certeau, L’Invention du quotidien, vol. 2: Habiter, cuisiner (Paris: Gallimard, 1994).
  • [7]
    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).
  • [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).
  • [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.
  • [10]
    Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), Physiologie du goût (Paris: Flammarion, 1990), 362.
  • [11]
    Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Le triangle culinaire,” L’Arc 26 (1965): 19-29.
  • [12]
    See, for example, Jean-Claude Ribaut, “Ferran Adria, cuisinier déconstructiviste,” Le Monde, June 20, 2001.
  • [13]
    Decree of August 12, 1993, relating to the Beaufort protected designation of origin.
  • [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).
  • [15]
    Jack Goody, “The Globalization of Chinese Food,” in Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West (London: Verso, 1998): 161-171.
  • [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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