Jessica Kuper came to England from SOuth AFrica in 1965, and has a PhD in anthropology from the Univeristy of London.
Jessica Kuper came to England from South Africa in 1965, and has a PhD in anthropology from the University of London.
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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.
Introduction, Some Unusual Ingredients and Possible Substitutes SECTION 1: Europe SECTION 2: Africa SECTION 3: The New World, SECTION 4 Asia SECTION 5: The Pacific and Australia SECTION 6: The Anthropology of Cooking
An anthropological study of food, eating and culinary culture. Entries describe the significance of food in the culture under examination, explain how it is selected and prepared, and provides a recipe that can recreate the tastes of other worlds.
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Jessica Kuper
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Ghanaian Groundnut Stew? Chugach Eskimo Chowder? Whatever your tastes may be these are just a few of the choice contributions collected by Jessica Kuper from anthropologists all over the world to create a menu that no global gourmet will want to be without. In the classic cookbook tradition, contributors include a list of ingredients and details on how to prepare and serve the meal. But, more than a list of remarkable recipes, this book provides a feast of insights into the varied phenomena of intercultural cuisine from an anthropological point of view, ranging from an examination of the significance of special dishes through general discussions about the preparation of food in different cultures, to an analysis of the symbolic and structural significance of food and eating.
