Taste, politics, and identities in Mexican food / edited by Steffan Igor Ayora-Díaz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ayora Díaz, Steffan Igor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Mexico.

Food habits.

Cooking, Mexican--Social aspects.

Cooking, Mexican.

National characteristics, Mexican.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"This book examines the history, archaeology, and anthropology of Mexican taste. Contributors analyze how the contemporary identity of Mexican food has been created and formed through concepts of taste, and how this national identity is adapted and moulded through change and migration.wing on case studies with a focus on Mexico, but also including Israel and the United States, the contributors examine how local and national identities, the global market of gastronomic tourism, and historic transformations in trade, production, the kitchen space and appliances shape the taste of Mexican food and drink. Chapters include an exploration of the popularity of Mexican beer in the United States by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, an examination of the experience of eating chapulines in Oaxaca by Paulette Schuster and Jeffrey H. Cohen, an investigation into transformations of contemporary Yucatecan gastronomy by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, and an afterword from Richard Wilk. Together, the contributors demonstrate how taste itself is shaped through a history of social and cultural practices."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction : the politics of taste and identity

Matters of taste : the politics of food and identity in Mexican cuisines / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

A touch of pre-Colombian Maya flavor / Lilia Fernández-Souza

Gastronomy and the origins of republicanism in Mexico / Sarah Bak-Geller Corona

Alcohol consumption patterns among different social groups during Yucatan's gilded age / Héctor Hernández Álvarez and Guadalupe Cámara Gutiérrez

The flavors of corn : a unique combination of tradition and nature / Mario Fernández-Zarza and Ignacio López Moreno

A taste for agave : the emerging practices and politics of mezcal connoisseurship / Ronda Brulotte

Making and changing Yucatecan taste in Yucatán : innovation and persistence in Yucatecan gastronomy / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

The life delicious : taste and politics in Merida, Yucatan / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina

To eat chapulines in Oaxaca, Mexico : one food, many flavors / Jeffrey H. Cohen and Paulette Schuster

The taste of Oaxaca : it's to die for! / Ramona L. Pérez

Dos Equis and Five Rabitt : beer and taste in greater Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Diffused palates : the evolution of culinary tastes of Jewish Mexicans living in Israel / Paulette Schuster

Defining sanitized taste and culinary tourism in Cozumel, Mexico / Christine Vassallo-Oby

Is there Mexican food? : taste and the politics of cultural identity / Richard Wilk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350066687

1350066680

9781350066694

1350066699

OCLC:

1077292166