Gluttony
The Seven Deadly Sins
(Sprache: Englisch)
Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. Eating too much is one of the Western world's greatest problems, but relatively few people would consider it a crime against God. Yet even as gluttony has ceased to be an evil, food...
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Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. Eating too much is one of the Western world's greatest problems, but relatively few people would consider it a crime against God. Yet even as gluttony has ceased to be an evil, food and dieting have become a cultural obsessions, with millions of pounds expended on mortifying the flesh with punishing diet and exercise regimes. This brief history of gluttony traces the changing cultural attitudes towards food and pleasure, scarcity and abundance. It reveals how notions of saintliness and purity have helped form modern views of enjoyment, self-mortification, and ultimately nutrition. Restaurant-goers and readers of gourmet magazines rationalize their pursuit of too much food in many ways, but does a slight tinge of guilt makes your meal taste that much better? This book provides the answer, thoroughly exploring humankind's attempts to quell its chief survival strategy - eating.
Autoren-Porträt von Francine Prose
Francine Prose, geboren 1947, lebt in New York. Sie ist Redakteurin von Harper's Magazine, schreibt regelmäßig für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften und unterrichtet creative writing u.a. an der John Hopkins Universität. Bisher veröffentlichte sie mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten. Francine Prose wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen und Stipendien ausgezeichnet.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Francine Prose
- 2003, 128 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 18,5 x 12,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: New York Public Library
- ISBN-10: 0195156994
- ISBN-13: 9780195156997
Sprache:
Englisch
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'Simon Blackburn on lust and Joseph Epstein on envy have produced little classics: written, researched and argued exemplarily, they take their topics seriously but discuss them with elegance and humour as well as insight. Francine Prose on gluttony joins them at the top of the list with a kind and thoughtful meditation.' A.C. Grayling, Financial Times Magazine
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