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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen : Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island / David E. Sutton.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutton, David E., Author.
- Series:
- California studies in food and culture ; 52.
- California Studies in Food and Culture ; 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, Greek.
- Genre:
- Cookbooks.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. Author David E. Sutton focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as the cutting of onions, the use of a can opener, and the rolling of phyllo dough, along with cultural changes, such as the rise of televised cooking shows, to reveal new perspectives on the anthropology of everyday living.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Video Examples
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Does Greek Food Taste So Good?
- 1. Emplacing Cooking
- 2. Tools and Their Users
- 3. Nina and Irini: Passing the Torch?
- 4. Mothers, Daughters, and Others: Learning, Transmission, Negotiation
- 5. Horizontal Transmission: Cooking Shows, Friends, and Other Sources of Knowledge
- 6. Through the Kitchen Window
- Conclusion: So, What Is Cooking?
- Epilogue: Cooking (and Eating) in Times of Financial Crisis
- Notes
- References
- Author Index
- Keyword Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-520-28055-5
- 0-520-95930-2
- OCLC:
- 889551658
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