The emergence of national food : the dynamics of food and nationalism / edited by Atsuko Ichijo, Venetia Johannes, and Ronald Ranta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ichijo, Atsuko, 1967- editor.

Johannes, Venetia, editor.

Ranta, Ronald, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Political aspects.

Food habits.

Food habits--Social aspects.

National characteristics.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

x, 207 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

Introduction / Atsuko Ichijo, Venetia Johannes, Ronald Ranta

Salt cod and the making of a Portuguese national cuisine / José Sobral

The cookbook in Mexico : a founding document of the modern nation / Sarah Bak-Geller Corona

Potica : the leavened bread that reinvented Slovenia / Andreja Vezovnik and Ana Tominc

Bacillus bulgaricus : the breeding of national pride / Nevena Nancheva

Food and nationalism in an independent Ghana / Brandi Simpson Miller

Signifying poverty, class, and nation through Scottish foods : from haggis to deep-fried mars bars / Joy Fraser and Christine Knight

Catalan culinary nationalism : a contemporary case study / Venetia Johannes

The construction of a national cuisine and its impact on regional cuisines as markers of identity in Costa Rica / Mona Nikolic

Ethnicity, class and nation in the Chilean cuisine / Isabel M. Aguilera Bornand

Does Israeli food exist? : the multifaceted and complex making of a national food / Ronald Ranta and Claudia Raquel Prieto-Piastro

Obliterating or reviving the non-existing nation / Liora Gvion

Nationalism, culinary coherence and the case of the United States : an empirical or conceptual problem? / Amy Trubek

The Canadian cuisine fallacy / Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet

They're always eating cuy : food regionalism and transnationalism in Ecuador and the Andes / Emma-Jayne Abbots

Conclusion / Atsuko Ichijo, Venetia Johannes and Ronald Ranta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350074132

1350074136

OCLC:

1079335136