Taste, politics, and identities in Mexican food / edited by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Ayora Díaz, Steffan Igor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Mexican.

Social aspects.

Food habits.

Mexico.

Food habits--Mexico.

Cooking, Mexican--Social aspects.

National characteristics, Mexican.

Food in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xi, 226 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction : matters of taste : the politics of food and identity in Mexican cuisines / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

Part one. Tasting the past in Mexican foods. A touch of pre-Colombian Maya flavor / Lilia Fernández-Souza

Gastronomy and the origins of republicanism in Mexico / Sarah Bak-Geller Corona

Alcohol consumption patterns among different social groups during Yucatán's gilded age / Héctor Hernández Álvarez and Guadalupe Cámara Gutiérrez

The flavors of corn : a unique combination of tradition and nature / Mario Fernández-Zarza and Ignacio López-Moreno

Part two. The identity and politics of Mexican foods

and the politics of identity. A taste for agave : the emerging practices and politics of mezcal connoisseurship / Ronda L. Brulotte

Making and changing Yucatecan taste in Yucatán : innovation and persistence in Yucatecan gastronomy / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

The life delicious : taste and politics in Mérida, Yucatán / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

To eat chapulines in Oaxaca, Mexico : one food, many flavors / Jeffrey H. Cohen and Paulette Kershenovich Schuster

Part three. Taste and displacement : Mexican food in the world of consumption. The taste of Oaxaca : it's to die for! / Ramona L. Pérez

Dos Equis and Five Rabitt : beer and taste in greater Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Diffused palates : the evolution of culinary tastes of Jewish Mexicans living in Israel / Paulette Kershenovich Schuster

Defining sanitized taste and culinary tourism in Cozumel, Mexico / Christine Vassallo-Oby

Postface : is there Mexican food? : taste and the politics of cultural identity / Richard Wilk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781350066670

1350066672

OCLC:

1047433451

Publisher Number:

99980201842