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百年早餐史:現代人最重要的晨間革命, 可可、咖啡與糖霜編織而成的芬芳記憶

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從吃早餐的小歷史,到飲食文化塑造現代文明的大歷史

就讓世界甦醒的味道--早餐!縈繞百年的文化美味,喚醒精氣神,滿足文化之欲

法國聖迪耶國際地理節獎、2008年聖德尼獎得主克里斯穹‧葛塔魯提醒我們:每天吃的早餐,早已累積了百年各國文化精萃!

俗話說得好:「一日之計在於晨。」一天當中最重要的一餐,就是早餐了。不僅滿足口腹之欲,還是一日美好的開端。

早餐可簡單、可複雜、可華麗、可樸實,端視享用之人的喜好與需求。多數饕客在乎的是早餐好不好吃、去哪裡買、怎麼做?意在滿足填飽肚腹的物質需求,但你可曾想過,今日我們桌上的一份早餐,是積累了百年、來自各國的文化精華。
早餐其實顛覆了飲食史,擁有開創嶄新世界的力量,在短短幾百年間橫掃了歐亞大陸,成為許多人一早的精緻享受。特別在歐洲,早餐的形成與航海時代商船貿易的發達息息相關,成了展示外貿成果與新潮食品的最好舞台,其食材的演變與人們重視它的程度,在在顯示它跨越了物的界線,漸漸轉化為一種文化現象,且是令人驚異的跨文化融合。

當你坐在路邊早餐店的一角,享用著咖啡、火腿蛋土司與沙拉,享用著一天之始的明媚時,不妨想想:咖啡是怎麼傳進來的?土司是什麼時候開始占據我們的餐桌?沙拉又怎麼會成為健康的代表食品?就會發現,一張小小餐桌上的食物就像聯合國,而你正站在歷史的發展洪流中,帶著新文化向前邁進。

在《百年早餐史:現代人最重要的晨間革命,可可、咖啡與糖霜編織而成的芬芳記憶》一書裡,作者克里斯穹‧葛塔魯除了直向梳理早餐演變的歷史,還縱向包攬了地域發展、產業、運輸等的演進,以地理學家的獨到眼光,帶領我們看各個異域間的交流如何轉變固有的習慣,而這些習慣又如何內化,逐漸成為生活不可分割的文化。

「每個人都知道天天吃的早餐,因為太過熟悉了,以至於沒想過該去深入了解它長達三世紀的歷史!」

一旦明白了其中奧妙,早晨的餐桌就是精采又多元的文化共和國。每一種組合都是創新,每一次入口都是顛覆。

304 pages, Paperback

Published July 19, 2018

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57 reviews2 followers
June 10, 2024
Littérature désaltérante (lol) qui permet d'avoir un bref aperçu géo-historique de la manière dont ont été pensés nos petits déjeuners... A lire !
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87 reviews1 follower
May 26, 2025
je n’arrivais vraiment pas à me concentrer sur ce qu’il racontait
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726 reviews8 followers
September 4, 2018
Not many books have been written about the history of European/Western breakfast and surprisingly, it doesn't has a long history and the typical items of these breakfasts aren't even that 'western'.
This book, in fact, has traced the history of how coffee, cocoa and tea which are all grown in the East came to be consumed in the West. Obviously, imperialism and colonialism played a significant role in bringing these drinks to the West and popularizing them there.
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401 reviews25 followers
August 13, 2020
從早餐和早餐桌上的食物談食物的流變(這邊的早餐專指歐美的現代早餐型式)。
其實還蠻有趣的,不過其實看下來會覺得,作者你應該來台灣住一陣子啦可以研究台灣早餐再出一本書喔(喂)
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72 reviews1 follower
August 15, 2022
This book is quite eurocentric - it surrounds the history of non European countries to illustrate the development of French breakfast. Not sure if the title is a mistranslation but I think it would be more appropriate to name the book A History of French Breakfast instead. I was led to believe this book would touch on more cultures around the world.
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40 reviews6 followers
July 27, 2023
An interesting book that doesn't require too much effort to read.
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November 12, 2023
許多有趣的 side notes, 認真探究早餐從起源到現代趨勢,旁徵博引,極具深度及廣度。
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26 reviews12 followers
January 14, 2024
內容不錯,對於早餐有更進一步的認識,但是譯筆非常不通順,很容易翻出看不懂的句子
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