French Food or Royers Round Top Cafe A Relational Odyssey

French Food: On the Table, on the Page, and in French Culture

Author: Lawrence R Schehr

French identity is a matter of taste-or palate, to be more precise. Food permeates the very idea of "Frenchness"-from the literary feasts of Marcel Proust to the culinary feats of Julia Child, from foie gras to the french fry. French Food is an entertaining and insightful look at the way people cook, eat, market, talk, and write about French cuisine.
More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food matters: the history of French cooking, the intersections of taste and class, the aesthetics of cuisine, French food as nation building, novelists who use gastronomic details to spice up literary personas, and even the sexuality of a French dish. Revealing substance in a French meal beyond mere sustenance, this delicious volume is sure to sharpen your mind as well as your palate.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: Hors d'Oeuvres	1
1	A Cultural Field in the Making: Gastronomy in Nineteenth-Century France	5
2	Grimod de la Reyniere's Almanach des gourmands: Exploring the Gastronomic New World of Postrevolutionary France	51
3	Culina Mutata: Careme and l'ancienne cuisine	71
4	Tastes of the Host	83
5	Agape and Anorexia: Decadent Fast and Democratic Feast	90
6	Colette's "Ecriture gourmande"	99
7	Monsieur Marcel's Gay Oysters	114
8	Savory Writing: Marcel Rouff's Vie et Passion de Dodin-Bouffant	124
9	Diet and Ideology in Corps et ames	140
10	Existential Cocktails	147
11	The Betrayal of Moules-frites: This is (Not) Belgium	157
12	Eating Your Way Out: The Culinary as Resistance in Ferdinand Oyano's Le Vieux Negre et la medaille	170
13	The Politics of Food in Post-WWII French Detective Fiction	184
14	Film, Food and "La Francite": From le pain quotidien to McDo	203
15	Screening Food: French Cuisine and the Television Palate	221
16	Tractatus Logico-Gastronomicus	229
	Bibliography	243
	Contributors	257
	Index of Names	259
	Index of Cuisine	261

See also: Understanding and Managing Public Organizations or Kwame Nkrumah

Royers' Round Top Cafe: A Relational Odyssey

Author: Royers Round Top

The Royer Family invites you to discover a taste of their life in Round Top, Texas, population 81. Bud and Karen, with their four teenagers, run a 38-seat cafe serving a country-gourmet menu. This full color cookbook offers a unique blend of ingredients featuring the mixtures of relationships seasoned with good food and blended together to offer something they like to call "misnomers of life in the country and other anecdotes and recipes".