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- Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Latin America in Translation
summary
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- 3 Cornmeal
- pp. 77-95
- 7 Are We Still What We Ate?
- pp. 199-244
- 8 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- pp. 245-260
- Selected Glossary
- pp. 261-276
- Bibliography
- pp. 343-368
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469612621
Related ISBN(s)
9781469608822, 9781469608846, 9781469629971, 9798890842374
MARC Record
OCLC
862101140
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No