Sustenance for the body & soul : food & drink in Amerindian, Spanish & Latin American worlds / edited by Debra D. Andrist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrist, Debra D., 1950- editor.

Series:

Hispanic Worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Latin America.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Other Title:

Sustenance for the body and soul

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2022.

Summary:

The food-secure and/or privileged worldwide no longer eat and drink simply to maintain life itself. They have the advantage and choice to regard "sustenance" not just as fuel for the body/machine but as a source of pleasure and entertainment for the mind/intellect. This enhanced concept of "sustenance" embraces all the senses: visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile, thus including not just food & drink but ceremonies & art forms dealing with them. This book explores the substantive ways food & drink impact human existence. The work comprises five parts: medicine; ceremonies; literature & cinema; art & artists; space/architecture & advertising/art. Food & drink start with the physical, morph into nutrition, the most basic requirements for organic life, but progress from the beginning of physical process to ceremony and expression. The result and the experience highlight physiological and sensual concepts, and indeed, preference. Food & drink staples are determined by geographic availability and cuisine & beverage are closely associated with culture & ethnicity. Contributor exploration is wide-ranging: Aztec, Mexican & Spanish medicine; African & Roman Catholic rites; cookbook discourse and socio-gender influence; literature, including cultural comparisons of cooking and cooks; preparation & representation of food & drink as artistic endeavours, including by Latin American women, and types of inspirational "fodder", especially in the context of Picasso's art in Spain & France, & Spanish wine museums & labelling. Sustenance for the Body & Soul is the seventh book in the Hispanic Worlds series, details of which are available on the press website.

Contents:

Cover

Titel page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Indigenous &amp

Hispanic Worlds

PART I: Sustenance &amp

Socio-Political Spaces: Intents &amp

Agendas

A. (Proto) Political Perhaps Unintended Cultural Influences

1. A (Culinary) Counter-Conquest: Imports from the Americas that Conquered European Cuisine

Debra D. Andrist

B. Teaching &amp

Influencing the Students(s) as an Agrnda: Formal Education

2. Food Culture in Higher- Education Spanish Courses: Political Allegory in Lazarillo de Tormes

Elizabeth Coscio

3. Vitamin F: First Wave Feminist-Fueled Home Economics-A Dialogue of Trends in North America and Spain

Michelle M. Sharp

C. Teaching &amp

Influencing the Family as an Agenda: Socialization &amp

National Politics

4. Family Responsibilities: A Recipe for the Modern Spanish Nation-Carmen de Burgos's and Emilia Pardo Bazán's Cookbook Discourses

D. Teaching &amp

Influencing the Public as an Agenda: Commercial Advertising

5. Linking &amp

Selling Sustenance &amp

Space: Wine Labels in Spain

Kimberly Habegger

PART II: Sustenance &amp

Physical Space

A. Museum: Drink &amp

Architecture

6. Spain's Wine Museums: Where Age-Old Oenological Tradition Intersects with Contemporary Design &amp

Modern Technology

B. The Kitchen &amp

Dining Room: Food &amp

Drink Preparation &amp

Presentation

7. The Kitchen &amp

Dining Room: Cooking &amp

Consuming, Who, What, How in the Preparation &amp

Presentation of Food &amp

Drink

PART III: Sustenance for the Body &amp

Soul: Applications &amp

Interpretations

A. Applications for Medicine &amp

Healing.

8. The Body Cured by Plants: Where Have all the (Chocolate and Popcorn) Flower Gone? Recovering Healing Botanicals in Nahuatl Poetry

Jeanne L. Gillespie

9. Healing Remedies and Patron Divinities: The Songs of Pulque

Jeanne Gillespie

10. Como agua para chocolate: Like Food for Emotion, Like Illness/Injury for Transition/Transformation

B. Interpretation for Ceremony &amp

Religion

11. Eucharistic Bread &amp

Wine: A Concrete Sacramentality that Liberates

John Francis Burke

PART IV: Sustenance &amp

the Soul: Representation Via the Visual Arts

A. Visual: Studio &amp

Cinema

12. What's Cooking with Picasso: Conjuring Up Food in the First Year of Occupation

Enrique Mallén

13. The Devouring Eye (I) of Pablo Picasso

14. Sustenance for the Soul &amp

Spirit: Frida &amp

Fruit

15. Family, Food &amp

Fighting: A Comparative Study of the Mexican Film Como agua para chocolate and the Chinese film Eat Drink Man Woman

Haiqing Sun

PART V: Sustenance &amp

the Soul: Representation via the Literary Arts

A. Writers &amp

Writing, Fiction &amp

Essay

16. Food Vocabulary &amp

References as Linguistic, Familial &amp

Cultural Links: Memory, Identity &amp

Comfort-The Essays &amp

Short Stories by Rose Mary Salum

17. Filminas: An Essay

Rose Mary Salum

18. Real Recipes and Willed Eroticism in Isabel Allende's Afrodita

19. Cultural &amp

Culinary Symbiosis: The Art of Describing Cuban Identity in José Lezama Lima's Paradiso

Jorge Chavarro

20: Metamorphosis and Food: Adela Fernández and Leonora Carrington's Short Stories, A Comparative Reading

Eduardo Cerdán

Conclusions and Reflections

The Editor and Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Andrist, Debra D. Sustenance for the Body and Soul

ISBN:

1-78284-738-3

OCLC:

1272996334