Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom

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Anthropology/Food Writing
"Sidney W. Mintz sets out a buffet of information in Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom. He tells how Coca-Cola gained international renown, how sugar beat out honey in the wooing of the sweet-tooth market, and how working men were moved to buy goods once limited to the rich and powerful, like sugar, alcohol, pipe tobacco, chocolate and tea." —Gael McCarthy, The New York Times Book Review
"Mintz celebrates food itself. . . . From his opening, moving portrait of his father, a cook, to his closing reflections on American diet, food is not simply a vehicle toward other historical and cultural themes. It is a worthy and considerable subject for thought and reflection on its own." —William Roseberry, American Anthropologist
"For Mintz, to write about food is to embark on an anthropological exploration of the ways in which human beings invest eating—that most basic of animal activities . . . with social meaning."
—Roger Just, The London Times Literary Supplement... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Anthropology/Food Writing
"Sidney W. Mintz sets out a buffet of information in Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom. He tells how Coca-Cola gained international renown, how sugar beat out honey in the wooing of the sweet-tooth market, and how working men were moved to buy goods once limited to the rich and powerful, like sugar, alcohol, pipe tobacco, chocolate and tea." —Gael McCarthy, The New York Times Book Review
"Mintz celebrates food itself. . . . From his opening, moving portrait of his father, a cook, to his closing reflections on American diet, food is not simply a vehicle toward other historical and cultural themes. It is a worthy and considerable subject for thought and reflection on its own." —William Roseberry, American Anthropologist
"For Mintz, to write about food is to embark on an anthropological exploration of the ways in which human beings invest eating—that most basic of animal activities . . . with social meaning."
—Roger Just, The London Times Literary Supplement
"A most engaging book. It reads as if Mintz were sitting across from one and talking about what fascinates him about food—why we fear certain foods, the symbolic power of food, . . . food (sugar) as medicine etc. Highly recommended. "
—Gary K. Beauchamp, Appetite
"A thoroughly delectable treat—a collection of essays on taste by the greatest historian of sugar." —Mary Douglas, author of In the Wilderness

Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Caribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power, is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
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