Culinary art and anthropology
By: Joy Adapon.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781847882134; 9781847882127
Subjects: Cookery, Mexican; Cookery -- Mexico -- Milpa Alta; Cookery -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Milpa Alta; Food habits -- Mexico -- Milpa Alta
Description: "Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. The integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life is examined among cottage industry barbacoa makers in Milpa Alta, an outer district of Mexico City. Women's work and local festive occasions are examined against a background of material on professional chefs who reproduce 'traditional' Mexican cooking in restaurant settings. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, Culinary Art and Anthropology offers a sensual, theoretically sophisticated model for understanding food anthropologically. It will appeal to social scientists, food lovers, and those interested in the growing fields of food studies and the anthropology of the senses". --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.