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

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Beacon Press, 14 ago 1997 - 170 páginas
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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Introduction
1
Tasting Food Tasting Freedom
33
The Conquest of Honey by Sucrose
50
Sugar and Morality
67
Color Taste and Purity
84
High Low and Not at All
92
Eating American
106
Notes
125
Works Cited
135
Index
145
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Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Carribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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