Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity (Latin America in Translation/en Traducci?n/em Tradu??o)

Ortíz Cuadra, Cruz Miguel

ISBN 10: 1469629976 / ISBN 13: 9781469629971

Editore: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00104063256

Riassunto:

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.

L'autore: Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra is senior lecturer in the department of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, and author of Puerto Rico en la olla, among other books.

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Titolo: Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, ...
Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good