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    Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
    Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
    Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture
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    Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture

    By Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft and Merry White

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    What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.
     
    From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.
     
    Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nớc chấm, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of California Press
    Release dateSep 19, 2023
    ISBN9780520393004
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    Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

    Benjamin A. Wurgaft is a writer and historian. His previous books include Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food and Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt.   Merry I. White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. Her previous books include Coffee Life in Japan and Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. The Japanese government has honored her work in the anthropology of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun.

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