Food and power : a culinary ethnography of Israel / Nir Avieli ; drawings by Heimo Wallner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avieli, Nir, 1966- author.

Series:

California studies in food and culture ; 67.

California studies in food and culture ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Israeli--History.

Cooking, Israeli.

Cooking--Social aspects--Israel.

Cooking.

Cooking--Social aspects.

History.

Israel--Social life and customs.

Israel.

Manners and customs.

Kosher food.

National characteristics, Israeli.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. Nir Avieli explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine, the ownership of hummus, the privatization of communal Kibbutz dining rooms, and food at a military prison for Palestinian detainees to show how cooking and eating create ambivalence concerning questions of strength and weakness and how power and victimization are mixed into a sense of self-justification that maintains internal cohesion among Israeli Jews."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the hummus wars

Size matters

Roasting meat

Why we like Italian food

The McDonaldization of the Kibbutz dining room

Meat and masculinity in a military prison

Thai migrant workers and the dog meat eating myth

Conclusion : food and power, orientalization and ambivalence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Avieli, Nir, 1966- Food and power.

ISBN:

9780520290099

0520290097

9780520290105

0520290100

OCLC:

975968285