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Why food matters / / Paul Freedman



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Autore: Freedman Paul <1949-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Why food matters / / Paul Freedman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)
Soggetto topico: Food - History
Food habits
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1: Feast and Famine -- 2: Religious Rules and Gastronomic Identity -- 3: Taste -- 4: Rejecting and Enjoying the Food of Others -- 5: Food and Health -- 6: Women, Men, and Food -- 7: Race -- 8 Conviviality -- 9: Food and the Present Crises.
Sommario/riassunto: An award-winning historian makes the case for food's cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human history. In this short, passionate book, Paul Freedman makes the case for food's vital importance, stressing its crucial role in the evolution of human identity and human civilizations. Freedman presents a highly readable and illuminating account of food's unique role in our lives, a way of expressing community and celebration, but also divisive with regard to race, cultural difference, gender, and geography. This wide-ranging book is a must-read for food lovers and all those interested in how cultures and identities are formed and maintained.
Titolo autorizzato: Why food matters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780300263077
0-300-26307-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910554232603321
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