Food Is Culture

by Massimo Montanari

Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food--its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption--represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers were determined by a culture of economics (availability) and medicine (digestibility and nutrition) that led to the development of specific social structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137907
• ISBN13: 9780231137904
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 7.6"