Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions Into Eating, Power, and the Past

A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.

Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.

Author: Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 08/01/1997
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.47w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9780807046296
ISBN10: 0807046299
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Customs & Traditions
- Cooking | History

About the Author
Sidney W. Mintz, author of Worker in the Cane, Carribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power is professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.