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Changing food habits : case studies from Africa, South America and Europe

Title
Changing food habits : case studies from Africa, South America and Europe / edited by Carola Lentz.
Publication
Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1999.

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Additional Authors
Lentz, Carola.
Description
vi, 288 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Food in history and culture ; v. 2
Uniform Title
Food in history and culture ; v. 2.
Subject
  • Association Mitteleuropa
  • Food habits > Africa > Case studies
  • Food habits > South America > Case studies
  • Food habits > Europe > Case studies
  • Diet > Social aspects > Africa > Case studies
  • Diet > Social aspects > South America > Case studies
  • Diet > Social aspects > Europe > Case studies
  • Diet therapy
  • Diet Therapy
  • Diet therapy
  • Diet > Social aspects
  • Food habits
  • Essgewohnheit
  • Ernährungsgewohnheit
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Food habits > Case studies
  • Coutumes alimentaires > Cas, Études de
  • Alimentation > Cas, Études de
  • Africa
  • Europe
  • South America
  • Afrika
  • Südamerika
  • Europa
Genre/Form
  • Case Reports
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • In praise of the simple meal : African and European food culture compared / Gerd Spittler -- Cassava, "the lazy man's food"? Indigenous agricultural innovation and dietary change in Northwestern Zambia (ca. 1650-1970) / Achim von Oppen -- The cook, his wife, the madam and their dinner : cooking, gender and class in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Changing patterns of food consumption in Central Kordofan, Sudan / Joachim Theis -- Food acid in Peru : refusal and acceptance in a peasant community of the Central Andes / Leticia Delgado -- Tasty meals and bitter gifts : consumption and production in the Ecuadorian Andes / M.J. Weismantel -- Alcohol consumption between community ritual and political economy : case studies from Ecuador and Ghana / Carola Lentz.
  • The porridge debate : grain, nutrition, and forgotten food preparation techniques / Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen -- The rationing system, food policy, and nutritional science during the Second World War : a comparative view of Switzerland / Jakob Tanner -- Plurality of taste : food and consumption in West Germany during the 1950s / Michael Wildt -- Mc Kebap : Döner Kebap and the social positioning struggle of German Turks / Ayse S. Çaglar.
ISBN
  • 9057025647
  • 9789057025648
OCLC
  • ocm41875345
  • 41875345
  • SCSB-1149808
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library