The Anthropologists' Cookbook

By Jessica Kuper

Book Overview

First published in 1997. This cookbook invites you to sample cuisines that are still exotic even in the post-modern kitchen. Try out cooking techniques from the Colombian Amazon or from Highland New Guinea. Experiment with recipes from a Malaysian fishing village or taste a Maroon dish from the Jamaican mountains. The idea that a meal should be made up of a sequence of dishes is by no means universal, but there is no reason why one might not construct a syncretic menu. But this book does not just offer a string of recipes. Cooking and eating can be a way of travelling to foreign countries, just as food can trigger memories and bring the past back to you. This book is also a practical introduction to the anthropology of food.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138963615
• ISBN13: 9781138963610
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Glorious, unbelievable and sometimes grotesque. Totally cool

Wow! Glorious, beautiful and at the same time, sometimes completely unbelieveable and grotesque. We need to spend more time thinking about what our food choices say about our culture. Julie Rackliffe (rackliffe@tcm.org)