A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce / Краткая история спагетти с томатным кетчупом
Год издания: 2021
Автор: Montanari Massimo / Монтанари Ма́ссимо
Издательство: Europa Compass (23 Sept. 2021)
ISBN: 978-1787703285
Язык: Английский
Формат: EPUB
Качество: Издательский макет или текст (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: Да
Количество страниц: 128
Описание: "Краткая история спагетти с томатным кетчупом" Ма́ссимо Монтанари (издание на английском языке).
THE MYTHS SURROUNDING THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE DISH, DEBUNKED
Did Marco Polo bring pasta back from China, or is that a myth?
How did the Neapolitan “macharoni” turn into the ubiquitous spaghetti?
Is it even an Italian dish?
Hundreds of shapes and thousands of recipes give expression to the culture and products of the country’s regions. But spaghetti with tomato sauce remains Italy’s identity dish par excellence.
Massimo Montanari goes in search of the dish’s true origins, tracing its history along the multiple, intricate routes taken by its raw ingredients to merge and become a distinctive element of culinary tradition.
It took almost two thousand years and input from the Far East, the Arabic world, and the Americas, for the dish to take centre stage. Its development is the result of chance encounters, unplanned exchanges, and unpredictable intersections. As we dig in search of spaghetti’s origins, we find its strands wrap right around the world.
“Learned and entertaining.”–Il Giornale
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Review
"Food historian Montanari reflect on the meaning of roots, identities, and origins in this illuminating examination of one of the world’s most famous culinary pairings. While this scholarly treatise may be better suited for those with big appetites for knowledge, it’s full of delicious details." ― Publisher's Weekly
“Cultural historian Montanari has deconstructed pasta’s history and come up with some surprising data.... [His] research will delight readers and provide plenty of fodder for dinner-table discussion.” ― Booklist
"Montanari traces the unstoppable rise of what would become the most famous dish in the whole world." ― Robinson
"A learned and entertaining volume." ― Il Giornale
"An utterly fascinating discourse on food history." ― The Daily Beast
About the Author
Massimo Montanari, currently Professor of Medieval History at Bologna University, is a scholar in Food Studies. He has been invited as visiting professor to a number of leading universities in Europe, Japan, the United States, Mexico and Canada, and is one of the founders of the international review Food & History.
Gregory Conti teaches English at the University of Perugia and is a regular contributor to Raritan. His most recent translations are Seven Poems by Elisa Biagini and The Fault Line by Paolo Rumiz (Rizzoli USA, 2015).
