Title: You eat what you are :
Authors: Barer-Stein, Thelma,
Date: 1999
Publisher: Firefly Books,
Physical description: 544 p. : maps ; 29 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: "A documented study of ethnocultural food traditions. ... A historical, regional, and cultural overview begins each chapter with particular emphasis given to factors or events that influenced food availability, selection, preparation and those food habits that have remained as traditions." Each chapter includes sections titled Domestic life, Foods commonly used, Meals, Customs, Special occasions, Cooking methods, Regional specialties, and Glossaries of foods and food terms.
Contents: African -- Albanian -- American -- Armenian -- Australian -- Austrian -- Baltic peoples : Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian -- Belgian -- Belorussian -- Bulgarian -- Canadian : Atlantic Provinces, First Nations, Quebec -- Chinese -- Czech and Slovak -- Danish -- Dutch -- Egyptian -- English -- Filipino -- Finnish -- French -- German -- Greek -- Hungarian -- Icelandic -- Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan -- Indonesian, Malay, and Singaporean -- Iranian -- Irish -- Israeli and Jewish -- Italian -- Japanese -- Korean -- Latin American: Argentinian, Uruguayan, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Venezualan, Peruvian. Maltese -- Mexican -- Moroccan -- New Zealanders -- Norwegian -- People of the Fertile Crescent: Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Syrian -- Polish -- Portuguese -- Romanian -- Russian -- Scottish -- Southern Slavs (formerly Yugoslavian): Bosnian-Herzegovian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian -- Spanish -- Swedish -- Swiss -- Thai -- Tibetan -- Turkish -- Ukrainian -- Vietnamese -- Welsh -- West Indian.
Subject headings (LCSH): Food habits.; Food--Terminology.; Manners and customs.