Bigger Fish to Fry
Subtitle: A Theory of Cooking As Risk, with Greek Examples
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781800732230
Subjects: Home economics
Description: "What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one's meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author's anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally"--