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Bigger fish to fry : a theory of cooking as risk, with Greek examples / David E. Sutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutton, David E. (David Evan), author.
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe ; v. 3.
- New anthropologies of Europe : perspectives and provocations ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--Social aspects.
- Cooking.
- Food habits.
- Cooking--Social aspects--Greece.
- Food habits--Greece.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 114 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2021.
- Summary:
- "What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one's meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author's anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. In the dangerous kitchen
- How people cook, while thinking, for example
- "That's not cooking!" Human creativity or mechanical reproduction?
- "To steal a bad hour from death" : subjective risk and contingent temporalities in the Greek kitchen
- Conclusion. Take the risk.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sutton, David E. (David Evan) Bigger fish to fry
- ISBN:
- 9781800732230
- 1800732236
- OCLC:
- 1240414693
- Publisher Number:
- 99988524920
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