The Meaning of Food
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780762738373
Subjects: Food habits; Social aspects; Ethnic food industry; Cookery; United States; Technology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Science/Mathematics; General; Food Science; Anthropology - Cultural; Eating customs
First sentence: Taste lingers. It curls on the tonque with the sweet honey of memory, the bitterness of a broken promise, the salty heat of a midnight embrace.
Description: Provides an examination of the role of food, journeying to thirteen different ethnic communities across the United States to explain how the food of each culinary tradition becomes an expression of human diversity.