Home cooking in the global village : Caribbean food from buccaneers to ecotourists / Richard Wilk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilk, Richard R., author.

Series:

Anthropology and Material Culture.

Anthropology and Material Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Belize.

Food habits.

Food preferences--Belize.

Food preferences.

Food industry and trade--Belize.

Food industry and trade.

Cooking, Belizean.

Belize--Social life and customs.

Belize.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

English edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Berg, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking, while tasting the delights of the global marketplace? Menus, recipes and bad colonial poetry combine with Wilk's sharp anthropological insight to give an important new perspective on the perils and problems of globalization. Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.

Contents:

The global supermarket

Globalization through food

Pirates and baymen

Slaves, masters and mahogany

The taste of colonialism

Global ingredients and local products

Food politics and the making of a nation

Migrants, tourists and the new Belizean cuisine

Fast food or home cooking?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-280) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781847885456

1847885454

OCLC:

406460609