| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages .) |
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text file |
| Series |
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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| Note |
"Originally published in Spanish with the title Puerto Rico en la olla." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rice -- Beans -- Cornmeal -- Codfish -- Viandas -- Meat -- Are we still what we ate? -- Yesterday, today, tomorrow -- Selected Glossary. |
| Summary |
This book is a history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico; it unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. The author shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico. Using a multidisciplinary approach and a sweeping array of sources, the author asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors, or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared, the author concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change. -- From publisher's website. |
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Available for the first time in English, this history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centred on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. The author shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Puerto Rico.
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Food habits. |
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Puerto Rico. |
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Diet -- Puerto Rico.
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Diet. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Davidson, Russ, translator.
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| Added Title |
Puerto Rico en la olla. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781469608822 1469608820 (DLC) 2013011560 |
| ISBN |
1469612623 (electronic book) |
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9781469612621 (electronic book) |
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9781469608822 (hardback) |
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1469608820 (hardback) |
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