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Tasting food, tasting freedom : excursions into eating, culture, and the past /

"Food is a central element of expression in all cultures. What and how we eat, and with whom, reveals much about our desires and relationships. In Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom, Sidney W. Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. Taking...

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Main Author: Mintz, Sidney W. 1922-2015.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, ©1996.
Subjects and Genres:
Food habits.
Diet.
Food > Philosophy.
Eating (Philosophy)
Food > history
Diet > history
Feeding Behavior
Habitudes alimentaires.
Alimentation.
Alimentation > Philosophie.
Nourriture.
Aliments > Philosophie.
diet.
Ernährung.
Ess- und Trinksitte.
Philosophie.
Voedingsgewoonten.
Diëten.
Culturele aspecten.
Food.
Dinners and dining.
Diététique.
Coutumes alimentaires.
Ernährung.
Diet
Food > Philosophy
Food habits
Geschichte
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Food and its relationship to concepts of power
  • Tasting food, tasting freedom
  • The conquest of honey by sucrose
  • Sugar and morality
  • Color, taste, and purity
  • Cuisine: high, low, and not at all
  • Eating American.

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