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Author Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015, author

Title Tasting food, tasting freedom : excursions into eating, culture, and the past / Sidney W. Mintz
Published Boston, MA. : Beacon Press, 1996

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Description xix, 149 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction -- Food and its relationship to concepts of power -- Tasting food, tasting freedom -- The conquest of honey by sucrose -- Sugar and morality -- Color, taste, and purity -- Cuisine: high, low, and not at all -- Eating American
Summary Seven essays on the history of food in culture from American anthropologist
Notes Paperback is a digital print edition 2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and index
Subject Diet.
Eating (Philosophy)
Food habits -- South America -- Case studies.
Food habits.
Food -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 95047569
ISBN 0807046280 (alk. paper)
0807046299 (paperback)