Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture

by E.N. Anderson

Book Overview

Illuminates the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814704964
• ISBN13: 9780814704967
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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Book was in excellent condition and exactly what was expected, and recieved in a timely manner.

Plenty of cultural insights and background history

There's a strong relationship between biological need and culture: a relationship emphasized by E.N. Anderson, professor of anthropology at University of California Riverside, in his survey Everyone Eats: Understanding Food And Culture. Discussions range from the aesthetics of eating and different sensory perceptions between cultures to the needs for foods as displayed in differing literature of cultures, and surveys of how food fads change over time. Plenty of cultural insights and background history lend to a survey particularly recommended for college-level students of anthropology and social science.