| Popis: |
To examine the cook’s mediating power, this chapter turns to the vitalist, monist universe of Paradise Lost to explore how cooking relies on, emerges from, and interacts with the poem’s environments of Heaven, Earth, and Hell. Focusing on Eve, who relies on the environmental cookery of ripening to create her dishes, and the fallen angels, who use kitchen techniques to pursue their destructive work of mining, I suggest that both the processes (concoction, fermentation, and adustion) and products of cookery (Eve’s meal, Pandemonium and the cannon) reflect the environmental contexts and associated ethics of their makers. |
