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L'Histoire de ces personnages dont les noms peuplent notre quotidien… Leurs noms sonnent familièrement à nos oreilles : Braille, Diesel, Olibrius, Sandwich ou McAdam... Mais connaissez-vous ceux qui se cachent derrière ces patronymes ?Historia nous offre ici un recueil des textes de la fameuse rubrique «Un illustre inconnu» signé par l'éminent historien Claude Quétel. Ce Petit dictionnaire regroupe ces noms propres devenus familiers ; il nous emmène à la rencontre du contrôleur général des Finances Étienne de Silhouette, du militaire Mikhaïl Kalachnikov, du ministre de la Marine John Montagu, comte de Sandwich, ou encore du préfet de Paris Eugène-René Poubelle.Ce livre retrace les vies de ces fameux protagonistes de l'ombre qui, dans des domaines aussi variés que les sciences, la gastronomie, l'armement, le tourisme ou la littérature, ont, eux aussi, contribué à écrire l'Histoire.

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This work is about the creative work of chefs at top restaurants in New York and San Francisco. Based on interviews with chefs and observation in restaurant kitchens, the book explores the question of how and why chefs make choices about the dishes they put on their menus. It answers this question by examining a whole range of areas, including chefs' careers, restaurant ratings and reviews, social networks, how chefs think about food and go about creating new dishes, and how status influences their work and careers.

Celebrity chefs --- Creative ability in cooking --- Celebrity cooks --- Chefs, Celebrity --- Celebrities --- Cooks --- Culinary creativity --- Cooking --- Cookery --- Diet --- United States. --- E-books

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Exploring the rise of the celebrity chef and covering key figures such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray as well as popular concepts like foodies, food porn and fetishism, Food Media highlights how the intersections between celebrity culture and food media influence everyday food choices.

Celebrity chefs. --- Celebrity cooks --- Chefs, Celebrity --- Celebrities --- Cooks --- Cooks. --- Food habits --- Obesity in mass media. --- Food & society --- Mass media --- Chefs --- Food service employees --- Social aspects.

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This book discusses transformations in the construction of culinary taste, lifestyle and class through cookbook language style in post-socialist Slovenia. Using CDA methodology it demonstrates relying on standard and celebrity cookbooks how the representation of culinary advice has changed in recent decades as a result of general social transformations such as postmodernity and globalization. It argues that compared to the standard cookbooks, where nutritionist ideology is at the forefront, the celebrity cookbooks reflect the conversational, hybrid nature of the genre, through which they promote global foodie discourse, while at the same time localizing the global trends to the Slovene context. The book lays at the intersection of discourse analysis, sociology, food, cultural, communication and media studies and (post- ) socialism.

Cookbooks --- Celebrity chefs --- Slovenia --- Social life and customs

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"Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this illuminating new book cultural historian Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like Voltaire, Garrick and Liszt were all veritable celebrities in their time, arousing curiosity and passionate loyalty from their "fans." In Paris as in London, in Berlin as in New York, the rise of the press, new advertising techniques and the marketing of leisure brought a profound transformation in the visibility of celebrities: private lives were now very much on public show. Nor was politics spared this cultural upheaval: Marie-Antoinette, George Washington and Napoleon all experienced a political world transformed by the new demands of celebrity. And when the ^people suddenly appeared on the revolutionary scene, it was no longer enough to be legitimate, it was crucial to be popular too. Lilti retraces the profound social upheaval precipitated by the rise of celebrity and explores the ambivalence felt towards this new phenomenon. Jean Jacques Rousseau's career is an exemplary case. A celebrated and adulated writer, Rousseau ended up cursing the effects of his "disastrous celebrity," marred by the feeling that he had become a public figure whom people everywhere could fashion as they wished. Both sought after and denounced, celebrity evolved as the modern form of personal prestige, assuming the role that glory played in the aristocratic world in a new age of democracy and evolving forms of media. To this day, it is of course a type of glory whose value is still disputed. Lilti's perceptive history uncovers the birth of celebrity in the 18th century, while at the same time shining valuable light on the continuing importance of celebrity in tod ay?s world"--

Fame --- Celebrities --- Celebrity culture --- Celebs --- Cult of celebrity --- Famous people --- Famous persons --- Illustrious people --- Well-known people --- Persons --- Fan clubs --- Celebrity --- Renown --- Glory --- History --- France --- Social life and customs