Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy

Serier

1 of 10

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

A chronicle of the beloved base ingredient, from its origins, agricultural riches, and controversy to the passion, pride, and nostalgia it inspires today. Over time, the tomato has embodied a range of values and meanings. From its domestication in Central America, it has traveled back and forth across the Atlantic, powering a story of aspiration and growth, agriculture and industry, class and identity, and global transition. In this entertaining, organic history, David Gentilcore recounts the surprising rise of the tomato from its New World origin to its Old World significance. From its inauspicious introduction into Renaissance Europe, the tomato came to dominate Italian cuisine and the food industry over the course of three centuries. Gentilcore explores why elite and peasant cultures took so long to assimilate the tomato into Italian cooking and how it eventually triumphed. He traces the tomato's appearance in medical and agricultural treatises, travel narratives, family recipe books, kitchen accounts, and Italian art, literature, and film. He focuses on Italy's fascination with the tomato, painting a larger portrait of changing trends and habits that began with botanical practices in the sixteenth century and attitudes toward vegetables in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and concluded with the emergence of factory production in the nineteenth. Gentilcore continues with the transformation of the tomato into a national symbol during the years of Italian immigration and Fascism and examines the planetary success of the "Italian" tomato today. “Those with an interest in tomatoes, Italian life, or just cultural history in general may find this both enlightening and entertaining.” —Diane Leach, PopMatters

© 2010 Columbia University Press (E-bog): 9780231525503

Release date

E-bog: 15. juni 2010

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain Sam Wetherell
  2. Rise of renewables in cities: Energy solutions for the urban future International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
  3. The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante Sarah Spence
  4. Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank Sanford M. Jacoby
  5. Michelangelo: A Life on Paper Leonard Barkan
  6. Writing Outside the Nation Azade Seyhan
  7. Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson Fred I. Greenstein
  8. From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City Nathan Glazer
  9. Maps Full of Borders Todd Dedman
  10. Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine Elizabeth Popp Berman
  11. The ultimate book on Picasso Victoria Charles
  12. Renewable Energy and Jobs - Annual Review 2021 International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA
  13. HARLEY-DAVIDSON: THE REAL SECRET BEHIND YOUR CUSTOMERS' UNWAVERING LOYALTY MAX EDITORIAL
  14. Edward Burne-Jones: Art and intrigue Patrick Bade
  15. Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music Jennifer C. Lena
  16. Fringe and Fortune: The Role of Critics in High and Popular Art Wesley Monroe Shrum, Jr.
  17. Andrea Mantegna and the Italian Renaissance Joseph Manca
  18. Mucha Patrick Bade
  19. Patronizing the Arts Marjorie Garber
  20. Jean-Antoine Watteau Youri Zolotov
  21. Meetings of the Mind David Damrosch
  22. A Book About Books E. H. Bernstein
  23. The Elements of Visual Grammar: A Designer's Guide for Writers, Scholars, and Professionals Angela Riechers
  24. Aestheticism in Art William Hogarth
  25. The Underwater Eye: How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy Margaret Cohen
  26. Roses Claude Antoine Thory
  27. On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done David Badre

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis