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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: Paperback
Condition: Very Good

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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.

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

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