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The Taste of Place.

Publication: The Geographical Review
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Taste of Place.(The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
THE TASTE OF PLACE: A Cultural Journey into Terroir. By AMY B. TRUBEK. XX and 296 pp.; map, ills., bibliog., index. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780520252813.

Though not written by a geographer, this book specifically applies the classic mantra that "place matters" to the realm of food. The snappy title conveys not just the connection between what we eat and where what we eat originates but also the fact that sensory dimensions of food enhance our enjoyment of it. All of the interested parties receive attention in this volume: the consuming public, of course, and farmers, artisan food manufacturers, market sellers, chefs, restaurant proprietors, and government officials. Amy Trubek's range of expertise--a doctorate in anthropology, a trained cook, a wine buff, and a local food organizer--explains the mix of the conceptual with the practical realms.

Trips to Europe and around the United States frame the...

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