<i>The Gastronomical Arts in Spain: Food and Etiquette</i>. Ed. by Frederick A. de Armas and James Mandrell
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Food as a ‘civilizing’ force is a theme found in the early literature that chronicles the Iberian peninsula’s landfalls in the so-called ‘New World’. Not only did the exchange of commodities fuel an appetite for knowledge but it also enhanced the epicurean palate on both sides of the Atlantic and launched Spain’s culinary hegemony. Food in Spain has been an open passport to universalize the country’s customs and assert its regional and ethnic character. De Armas and Mandrell make the case for convening food and text to delineate the trajectory of gastronomy in Spain within academic, institutional and popular domains. Ten essays, divided into three ‘courses’ or sections, span the fifteenth to twentieth centuries: ‘Foodstuffs’, ‘What to Eat and How’ and ‘Modern Appetites and Culinary Fashions’. The first course encompasses the medieval world of honey and beeswax production as symbols of spiritual nourishment in the Cantigas de Santa María [Songs of Holy Mary], followed by the early modern gastronomy of the stew olla podrida as featured in two prominent court cookbooks. Chapter 3, John Slater’s ‘The Politics of the Origins of Maize’, probes the role that this crop played beyond Spain’s territories. At the start of the second section, in Fernando Serrano Larráyoz’s discussion of the diets of the Navarrese ruling elite, we learn that during the first half of the sixteenth century dietetic prescriptions for maladies occasioned by the eating habits of the upper class often required personalized medicine that resisted the homogenization of health practices. In the process of alimentary acculturation in the same period, there emerged the publication of conduct manuals designed to fashion the table manners of the nobility. Julio Vélez-Sainz’s pièce de resistance examines how such manners in medieval and early Renaissance theatre – as it relocated from the palace to the public stage – served as a blueprint to communicate matters of decorum and the ‘democratization of etiquette and manners’ (p. 131), particularly as the ignobile vulgus appropriated courtly ideals of food and dress. The first chapter in the final course is a digest of Felipe V’s political and social discourse as mediated through the influence of Gallic food and fashion. Contributors to the third course also document both Mariano José de Larra’s costumbrista journalism about the traditional cuisine of Spain and the motif of food insecurity in Benito Pérez Galdós’s realist novels as proof of the transition from Romantic impulses to a nascent modern Spain. In the view of José Colmeiro in Chapter 10, gastronomic literature of the post-Franco era is embodied in the ‘palate of memory’, in which consumerism, history, belonging, ideology, science and production occupy accepted cultural spaces.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.080 | 0.041 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".