Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy
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The tomato is more than just a "vegetable fruit." It is a food generating great economic wealth and major controversy among the countries that farm, process, exchange, and consume it. It is a crop infused with national pride and passion for those who grow...
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The tomato is more than just a "vegetable fruit." It is a food generating great economic wealth and major controversy among the countries that farm, process, exchange, and consume it. It is a crop infused with national pride and passion for those who grow it, and a symbol of Old World nostalgia for those who believe they own its history and legacy. The tomato has embodied a range of values and meanings over time. From its domestication in Central America, it has traveled repeatedly across the Atlantic, becoming the main ingredient in a story of aspiration and growth, agriculture and industry, class and identity, desire for tradition, and global transition.In this entertaining and organic history, David Gentilcore's recounts the surprising rise of the tomato from its New World origins to its Old World status and present significance. From inauspicious beginnings in Renaissance Europe, the tomato came to dominate Italian cuisine and the food industry over the course of three centuries. Gentilcore explores why the tomato took so long to infiltrate Italian cooking and its place in both elite and peasant cultures.
He traces its appearance in learned medical and agricultural treatises, travel logs, family recipe books, kitchen accounts, and Italian art, literature, and film. In focusing on Italy's fascination with the tomato, Gentilcore paints a larger portrait of changing trends and habits, starting with botanical practices in the sixteenth century and attitudes toward vegetables in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and moving through to the emergence of factory production in the nineteenth. He follows the transformation of the tomato into a national symbol during Italian immigration and Fascism and examines the planetary success of the "Italian" tomato today in its production, representation, and consumption.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy “
Preface and Acknowledgments 1. "Strange and Horrible Things" 2. Death by Vegetables 3. "They Are to Be Enjoyed" 4. Pasta al Pomodoro 5. "Authentic Italian Gravy" 6. The Autarchical Tomato 7. The Tomato Conquest Epilogue Bibliography Index
Autoren-Porträt von David Gentilcore
David Gentilcore is professor of early modern history at the University of Leicester and has written widely on the social and cultural history of Italy. His Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Jason A. Hannah Medal.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Gentilcore
- 2010, 254 Seiten, Maße: 16,8 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 023115206X
- ISBN-13: 9780231152068
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Frankly, I am amazed no one has already written this book. It is a fascinating topic, and David Gentilcore does it justice, covering five hundred years in scrutinizing detail. There is probably no food so readily associated with Italy than the tomato, and yet its origin is in the Americas." ¿ Ken Albala, University of the Pacific, and author of Beans: A History
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