Download or read book Taste Nostalgia written by Allen S. Weiss and published by Lusitania Press/Autonomedia. This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. From the margins of gastronomy to the depths of taste, a compendium of culinary delights and anguish. Rare recipes, lost histories, perfect dishes, childhood nostalgias, improbable ecstasies. This volume offers a miscellany of articles and illustrations in celebration of food and the social relations fostered by dining. These texts mix genres, reveal secrets, resolve mysteries, communicate passions--precisely what is needed to consider the complex cultural associations between cuisine and the other arts.