| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture ; 52 |
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California studies in food and culture ; 52
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Video Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Does Greek Food Taste So Good?; 1. Emplacing Cooking; 2. Tools and Their Users; 3. Nina and Irini: Passing the Torch?; 4. Mothers, Daughters, and Others: Learning, Transmission, Negotiation; 5. Horizontal Transmission: Cooking Shows, Friends, and Other Sources of Knowledge; 6. Through the Kitchen Window; Conclusion: So, What Is Cooking?; Epilogue: Cooking (and Eating) in Times of Financial Crisis; Notes; References; Author Index; Keyword Index |
| Summary |
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes |
| Analysis |
anthropology |
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california studies in food and culture book |
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can opener |
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contemporary events |
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contemporary greece |
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cooking expertise |
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cooking practices |
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cooking skills |
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cooking |
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cuisine |
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cultural changes |
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cultural studies |
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cutting onions |
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ethnographic research |
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everyday cooking |
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food knowledge |
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food prep |
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food |
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greece |
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greek cooking |
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greek kitchen |
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greek studies |
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greek |
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ingredients |
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island of kalymnos |
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kitchen setting |
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kitchen |
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micropractices |
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phyllo dough |
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recipes |
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small town settings |
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tastes |
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televised cooking shows |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cooking, Greek.
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COOKING -- General.
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COOKING -- Regional & Ethnic -- General.
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Cooking, Greek
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| Genre/Form |
cookbooks.
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Cookbooks
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Cookbooks.
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Livres de cuisine.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520959309 |
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0520959302 |
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9781322071275 |
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1322071276 |
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