Secrets from the Greek kitchen : cooking, skill, and everyday life on an Aegean Island /
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
52. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520959309 0520959302 9781322071275 1322071276 |