Pasta: The Story of a Universal FoodColumbia University Press, 6 nov 2002 - 416 pagine Ranging from the imperial palaces of ancient China and the bakeries of fourteenth-century Genoa and Naples all the way to the restaurant kitchens of today, Pasta tells a story that will forever change the way you look at your next plate of vermicelli. Pasta has become a ubiquitous food, present in regional diets around the world and available in a host of shapes, sizes, textures, and tastes. Yet, although it has become a mass-produced commodity, it remains uniquely adaptable to innumerable recipes and individual creativity. Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food shows that this enormously popular food has resulted from of a lengthy process of cultural construction and widely diverse knowledge, skills, and techniques. |
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the market for dry pasta | 50 |
rolling pins blades and brakes | 56 |
The Time of Plenty | 197 |
the italian reconquest | 203 |
victories and defeats in the regulation | 212 |
the empire of fresh pasta | 222 |
a tradition that comes from faraway | 230 |
shapes colors and flavors | 238 |
from pasta that melts in your mouth to pasta al dente | 253 |
pasta and its companions | 257 |
From the Hand to the Extrusion Press | 63 |
the emancipation of the pasta makers | 70 |
the triumph of the brake | 77 |
the revolution of the extrusion press | 83 |
The Golden Age of the Pasta Manufactory | 91 |
artisanal manufacturing | 98 |
natural drying | 108 |
a short guide to italian manufacturers | 115 |
The Industrial | 127 |
the mechanics of progress | 133 |
the bronze man or the automated dough kneader | 136 |
the triumph of the machine | 142 |
drying without sunlight | 150 |
the splendor and misery of a world | 157 |
Pasta Without Borders | 169 |
transatlantic migrations | 175 |
alsace and the passion for egg pasta | 184 |
pasta on the menu | 267 |
the BING paradigm | 276 |
favorite food of scholarly society | 286 |
the worshipful BING | 294 |
the first recipes | 304 |
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the popularity of BING throughout china | 311 |
exotic flavors methods and preparations | 325 |
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The Words of Pasta | 345 |
neapolitan folklore | 352 |
the dreams of the hand | 358 |
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