Home Cooking in the Global Village

ISBN: 9781845203597 出版年：2006 页码：296 Richard Wilk Bloomsbury Publishing

Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.Belize,of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, hfood 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 poetry combisharp anthropological insight to give an important new perspective on the perils and problems of globalization.