Eating Puerto Rico (eBook)

A History of Food, Culture, and Identity

Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
408 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0884-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico. Using a multidisciplinary approach and a sweeping array of sources, Ortiz asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors--or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared--Ortiz concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
• Reihe/Serie: Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
• Übersetzer: Russ Davidson
• Zusatzinfo: 17 figs., 5 tables, notes, bibl., index, glossary
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African influence on Puerto Rican food • Cruz Miguel Ortiz Quadra • culinary traditions Puerto Rico • cultural history of Puerto Rican food • history of eating habits Puerto Rico • Puerto Rican food • Puerto Rican foodways
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-0884-7 / 1469608847
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-0884-6 / 9781469608846