Food mobilities : making world cuisines / edited by Daniel E. Bender and Simone Cinotto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bender, Daniel E., editor.

Cinotto, Simone, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Culinaria ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Case studies.

Food habits--Case studies.

Food consumption--Case studies.

International cooking--Case studies.

Globalization--Case studies.

Food.

Food consumption.

Food habits.

Globalization.

International cooking.

Genre:

Case studies

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 396 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Food moves. Today, shoppers can load their shopping basket with spices from India, fruit from Honduras, and canned goods from Italy. Diners can decide between restaurants offering the cuisines of the world. Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. This collection of essays addresses the connections between the symbolic relations of mobility and systems of food politics, production, transformation, exchange, and consumption. The authors offer a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian foods in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in Toronto, and beer all around the world. The book demonstrates that mobility is not only a logistical question of moving people, animals, plants, and commodities but also one of knowledge production. In exploring the origins of the contemporary global food system and how we cook and eat today, Food Mobilities uncovers the local and global circulation of food, ingredients, cooks, commodities, labour, and knowledge."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Food mobilities.

ISBN:

1487509022

9781487509026

9781487526498

1487526490

OCLC:

1348635067

Publisher Number:

99995358255