Home cooking in the global village
Subtitle: Caribbean food from buccaneers to ecotourists
By: Richard Wilk.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg; Berg Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781845203597; 9781845203603
Subjects: Food habits -- Belize.; Food preferences -- Belize.; Food industry and trade -- Belize.; Cookery, Belizean.; Belize -- Social life and customs.
Description: Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking, while tasting the delights of the global marketplace? Menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry combine with Wilk's sharp anthropological insight to give an important new perspective on the perils and problems of globalization. Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The global supermarket; title: Globalization through food; title: Pirates and baymen; title: Slaves, masters and mahogany; title: The taste of colonialism; title: Global ingredients and local products; title: Food politics and the making of a nation; title: Migrants, tourists and the new Belizean cuisine; title: Fast food or home cooking?