Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

by Sidney W. Mintz
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past

by Sidney W. Mintz

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Overview

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807046296
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 08/28/1997
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 149
Sales rank: 398,360
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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

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