Food Is Culture
(Part of the Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Series)
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Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food--its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption--represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers were determined by a culture of economics (availability) and medicine (digestibility and nutrition) that led to the development of specific social structures...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231137907
ISBN13:9780231137904
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 7.6"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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