Ways of Eating
eBook - ePub

Ways of Eating

Exploring Food through History and Culture

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Ways of Eating

Exploring Food through History and Culture

About this book

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.
 
From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.
 
Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nớc chấm, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.

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Table of contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Vignette 1   Duccio’s Eden
  10. Chapter 1   Nature and Culture in the Origins Of Agriculture
  11. Vignette 2   Akashiyaki at Nishi-Akashi
  12. Chapter 2   Staple Empires of the Ancient World
  13. Vignette 3   Coffee and Pepper
  14. Chapter 3   Medieval Tastes
  15. Vignette 4   Before Kimchi
  16. Chapter 4   The Columbian Exchange, or, the World Remade
  17. Vignette 5   The Spirit Safe
  18. Chapter 5   Social Beverages and Modernity
  19. Vignette 6   Authenticity in Panama
  20. Chapter 6   Colony and Curry
  21. Vignette 7   The Icebox
  22. Chapter 7   Food’s Industrial Revolution
  23. Vignette 8   Bricolage
  24. Chapter 8   Twentieth-Century Foodways, or, Big Food and Its Discontents
  25. Vignette 9   Nem on the Menu
  26. Chapter 9   Ways of Eating
  27. Conclusion
  28. Notes
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index