Secrets from the Greek Kitchen
cooking, skill, and everyday life on an aegean island
$53.59
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2014
Summary
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: An Ethnography of Taste and Tradition
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author’s videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined ris…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520280557 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520280555 |
| Series: | California Studies in Food and Culture |
| Author: | David E. Sutton |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Sutton’s book, impeccably researched and lucidly presented, complicates and challenges this widespread view while also providing the tools and guideposts needed to re-think what it means to cook and the myriad reasons why it matters-in Kalymnos and elsewhere.” – Marcia Carabello Graduate Journal of Food Studies
About The Author
David E. Sutton
David E. Sutton is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University. He is the author of Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memories and Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life and the coauthor of Hollywood Blockbusters: The Anthropology of Popular Movies.
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