Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

by Richard R. Wilk

Book Overview

Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.

Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore. As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking, while tasting the delights of the global marketplace? Menus, recipes and bad colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845203607
• ISBN13: 9781845203603
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.4"