num_pages: 170
description: 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.
language: English
title: Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past
titlecomplete: Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past
genres: Sociology, History, Anthropology, Essays, Food History, Food Writing, Academic, Food, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 113
publisher: Beacon Press