Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past
by:
Sidney Mintz (author)
A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He...
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A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807046296 (0807046299)
ASIN: 0807046299
Publish date: 1997-08-14
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
"Important" book which I haven't the context to properly evaluate. Interesting essays, well-written, and a classic within its field as well as part of a larger and somewhat intense debate regarding what parts of "New World" or "Atlantic" culture are African and what parts are "original." (Oh, and A...
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