Ways of eating : exploring food through history and culture /

"From the origins of agriculture to twenty-first century debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and to the practice of food ethnography. By engaging ethnographic vignettes and historical chapters, the authors offer new ways to think about foo...

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Main Authors: Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes (Author), White, Merry I., 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 81.
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Table of Contents:
  • Vignette One : Duccio's Eden / by Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White
  • Chapter One : Nature and culture in the origins of agriculture
  • Vignette Two : Akashiyaki at Nishi-Akashi / by Merry I. White
  • Chapter Two : Staple empires of the ancient world
  • Vignette Three : Coffee and pepper / by Merry I. White
  • Chapter Three : Medieval tastes
  • Vignette Four : Before kimchi / by Merry I. White
  • Chapter Four : The Columbian Exchange, or, the world remade
  • Vignette Five : The spirit safe / by Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White
  • Chapter Five : Social beverages and modernity
  • Vignette Six : Authenticity in Panama / by Benjamin A. Wurgaft
  • Chapter Six : Colony and curry
  • Vignette Seven : The icebox / by Merry I. White
  • Chapter Seven : Food's industrial revolution
  • Vignette Eight : Bricolage / by Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White
  • Chapter Eight : Twentieth-century foodways, or, Big Food and its discontents
  • Vignette Nine : Nem on the menu / by Merry I. White
  • Chapter Nine : Ways of eating
  • Conclusion.