Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

Mintz, Sidney

ISBN 10: 0807046299 / ISBN 13: 9780807046296

Published by Beacon Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807046299
• ISBN 13: 9780807046296
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

About the Author

Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Carribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.