Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

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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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Weight 0.21 kg
Dimensions 1.02 × 13.97 × 21.59 cm
PubliCanadanadation City/Country

USA

Author(s)

Format
Language

Pages

170

Publisher

Year Published

1997-8-14

Imprint

ISBN 10

0807046299

About The Author

Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Carribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

'A buffet of information.' –Gael McCarthy, The New York Times'A collection of thoughtful. . . . essays. [Mintz's] writing is intellectually lively and stylistically colorful.' –Colman Andrews, Saveur

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