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The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
$80.00 AUD
Category: Essays
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
The Table Comes First by Adam Gopnik
$25.00 AUD
Category: Food
The Table Comes First is at once a celebration of the rituals of eating - the scene of families, friends, lovers coming together, or breaking apart, the core of our memories - and an exploration of the extraordinary transformations that our notion of what makes food 'good' has undergone. Taking the rea ...Show more
The Table Comes First: France, Family, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik
$40.00 AUD
Category: Food
Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows the true value of food, and looked with distaste on the culinary practices of i ...Show more