Good Taste and Sweet Ordering
Dining With MRS Beeton
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Beetham (Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 391-406 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s106015030808025x |
| OpenAlex | W1990127708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
In his book Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste , the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argues that in order to understand the workings of culture “in the restricted, normative sense” we must not only relate our discussion to the broad anthropological meanings of the concept, we must also relate it to “taste” in the physical sense. We must, he argues, bring “the elaborated taste for the most refined objects . . . back into relation with the elementary taste for the flavours of food” (Bourdieu 99). Bourdieu is writing of twentieth-century France and not nineteenth-century Britain. It may seem anachronistic to juxtapose a quotation from his work with one from an 1861 volume of domestic advice. However, his argument that social distinctions can be understood through a discussion of the material and cultural values attached to food resonates with Beeton's argument that “the rank which a people occupy . . . may be measured by their way of taking their meals.”
Aesthetics · Anachronism · Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Judgement · Normative · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Taste · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |