Title Fusion foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic era / by J.D. La Fleur.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, 1570-0542 ; v. 26
	Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 26.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Finding history in early Afro-Atlantic foodways -- Grist for the mill : Africanist historiography of pre-colonial agriculture -- Introducing the land to culture : an interpretation -- Seeds of change : early African experimentation with foreign starches -- You reap what you sow : the profits and perils of the new starchy staples -- The porcupine's shame : bearing the burden of cassava culture -- Finding food in Afro-Atlantic history.
Summary	Fusion Foodways describes the agricultural and cultural history of the Gold Coast (now, Ghana) in the Atlantic era, exploring the historical significance of new food crops and culinary techniques from the Americas, Asia and elsewhere in Africa to the farmers who produced them and to everybody who ate.
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Subject	Food crops -- Ghana -- History.
	Food habits -- Ghana -- History.
	Agriculture -- Ghana -- History.
	Plant introduction -- Ghana -- History.
	Crops -- Adaptation -- Ghana -- History.
	Starch crops -- Ghana -- History.
	Cassava as food -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: La Fleur, J.D. (James Daniel), 1969- Fusion foodways of Africa's Gold Coast in the Atlantic era. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004224124 (DLC) 2012021561 (OCoLC)794033425
ISBN	9789004234093 (electronic bk.)
	9004234098 (electronic bk.)
	9781283551021 (MyiLibrary)
	1283551020 (MyiLibrary)
	9789004224124
	9004224122

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