Adventures in Eating: Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World

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ix F i g u r e s 0.1 World map showing research areas of authors   |  xvi 1.1 Plate of chapulines   |  3 1.2 Haines washing chapulines down with liberal amounts of gin and tonic   |  4 2.1 Map of Papua New Guinea showing research location    |  22 2.2 Sago grubs in 1994    |  23 2.3 Eating boiled sweet potatoes from a common pot in 2005    |  27 2.4 The already-hatched brush turkey chick in 2005    |  28 2.5 Eating “Papua New Guinea pizza” in 2007    |  29 2.6 Sablaio holding a steamed kuyamodu (terrestrial phalanger), formerly taboo to non-initiates, in 2007    |  33 2.7 Sago pudding and a pot of boiled greens in 2007    |  37 2.8 Rex unpacking eleven brush turkey eggs for the egg and sago bread in 2005    |  39 2.9 Laurie taking the baked egg and sago bread out of the leaf oven in 2005    |  40 3.1 Map of the program for Belize National Park    |  44 3.2 The road through the program for Belize Biosphere in 1990    |  48 Figures  3.3 Photo of an agouti in the Belize National Zoo    |  49 4.1 Guaman Poma’s representation of cuy offering, seventeenth century    |  61 4.2 Fried cuy (cuy chaktado) in Moquegua, Peru    |  63 4.3 Traditional Highland Andean kitchen, Urubamba, Cuzco, Peru    |  65 4.4 Author’s nephews and their classroom guinea pig in Lexington, Massachusetts    |  66 4.5 Vendor displays seven-toed cuy in Moquegan market    |  70 4.6 Cuy as sporting club mascot, Moquegua, Peru    |  73 4.7 Cuy graffiti depicted with political aspirations behind the Faculty of Social Sciences, National Major University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru    |  74 6.1 Preparing to plant potatoes on the Bolivian altiplano, November 2002    |  107 6.2 A woman and her two children dine with other family members at a fiambre with chuño, papa, mote, and a spicy sauce in the center, November 2003    |  108 7.1 Durian tree    |  130 7.2 Durian fruit    |  131 7.3 Map of Malaysia    |  136 8.1 Views of Dominican food ready to eat (left) and coffee greeting (right), the Bronx, New York City    |  148 8.2 View of environment in Dominican Republic; New York and Dominican Republic maps and produce; view of New York City subway    |  150 8.3 Dominican woman preparing fresh seasoning in Brooklyn    |  152 8.4 View of R.’s sancocho prepared in Brooklyn    |  157 8.5 MSG clean-up day in R.’s kitchen, Brooklyn    |  158 11.1 Moroccan women buying chickens at the Porta Palazzo market in Turin, Italy    |  197 11.2 Culatello di Zibello, a dop product, curing in a cellar near Parma, Italy. The damp, humid fog in this area helps produce the mold that covers the salami and gives it a complex and unique taste    |  199 12.1 An entire side of beef for sale in the butcher shop, a typical sight in Tucumán    |  211 13.1 Montana tribal areas    |  225 13.2 Reservation land with a view toward Glacier National Park    |  226 13.3 Lone reservation supermarket and local restaurant, ca. 1996    |  231 13.4 Crowd at the annual Browning powwow (North American Indian Days)    |  232 13.5 Assorted food dishes at a potluck    |  233 Figures xi 14.1 Reminick journaling in the mountains    |  246 14.2 Asqala pouring batter for sourdough flat bread    |  247 14.3 Amhara woman preparing coffee    |  251 14.4 Rahel pouring coffee    |  252 14.5 Women with t’ej    |  257 14.6 Reminick and Yismaw with Johnny Walker Black Label Scotch whisky    |  259 ...