Forino, Imma (Author)
Einaudi
Edition Details: [Eng. Title: The kitchen: The cultural history of a domestic space].
Physical Details: 456
Language: Italian
Se è vero che da puro nutrimento il cibo si è presto trasformato in complessa e raffinata operazione che convoca gusti e intelligenze per assurgere allo status d'imprescindibile «linguaggio», il luogo domestico a esso dedicato, in adesione al codice culturale percepito come egemone, viene a rivestire un ruolo di non comune interesse. Dalla scoperta del fuoco in epoca preistorica fino alle modernissime realizzazioni della tecnologia e della domotica, queste pagine ne seguono l'evoluzione privilegiando lo studio dell'architettura e del design su scala europea e nordamericana e verificandolo nella lunga durata, negli studi sociologici, antropologici e di genere, nei riflessi letterari e cinematografici, nello sviluppo sorprendente del gusto e dei suoi artefici attraverso i secoli. È un perfetto microcosmo, lo spazio che chiamiamo cucina, contesto sempre in bilico tra stabilità e cambiamenti la cui vicenda, qui raccontata con ricchezza di fonti e affabilità narrativa, si intreccia significativamente alla storia delle gerarchie sociali e familiari, ai ruoli definiti e alla loro eloquente messa in discussione. (If it is true that from pure nourishment, food was soon transformed into a complex and refined operation that summons tastes and intelligence to rise to the status of an indispensable "language", the domestic place dedicated to it, in adherence to the cultural code perceived as hegemonic, comes to play a role of uncommon interest. From the discovery of fire in prehistoric times to the very modern achievements of technology and domotics, these pages follow its evolution, privileging the study of architecture and design on a European and North American scale and verifying it in the long term, in sociological, anthropological and gender studies, in literary and cinematographic reflections, in the surprising development of taste and its makers through the centuries. It is a perfect microcosm, the space we call the kitchen, a context always poised between stability and change whose story, told here with a wealth of sources and narrative affability, is significantly intertwined with the history of social and family hierarchies, defined roles and their eloquent questioning.)
...MoreReview Emanuela Scarpellini (January 2021) Review of "La cucina: Storia culturale di un luogo domestico". Technology and Culture (pp. 320-321).
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