Consuming Culture : why you eat what you eat / Jeremy MacClancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacClancy, Jeremy, author.

Contributor:

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.

Food habits.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Penn Provenance:

Rothman, Steven D. (donor)

Physical Description:

[8], 246, [2] pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1993.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The call of the wild

2. Culture vs. nature

3. Desert island dishes

4. Of life, rice and regularity

5. Taboo or not taboo

6. No food

7. Movable feasts

8. Squeeze my lemon

9. Lovin' spoonfuls

10. Asking for it

11. Revolution at table

12. Kids' stuff

13. How to make friends

14. How to make enemies

15. A class act

16. Recipes of power

17. Just desserts?

18. Meat and veg too

19. Offal!

20. First catch your man

21. Unmentionable cuisine

22. Gobble, gulp and go

23. The whole truth? Naturally!

24. Eating the other

25. How to worship food

26. The last bite?

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain in 1992 by Chapmans Publishers Ltd."--Title page verso.

"Jacket illustration by Tessa Traeger. Jacket design by John Candell"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.

Local Notes:

GT2850.M35 1993 presented to the Penn Libraries by Steven Rothman, 2018 has dust jacket with protective transparent cover retained.

ISBN:

0805025782

9780805025781

OCLC:

27071095