Local Foods Meet Global Foodways
This book explores the intersection of food and foodways from global and local perspectives. The collection contributes to interdisciplinary debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The expert contributions collectively address a fundamental tension in the emerging scholarly terrain of food studies, namely theorizing the relationship between foodstuff production and cuisine patterns. They explore a wide variety of topics, including curry, bread, sugar, coffee, milk, pulque, Virginia ham, fast-food, obesity, and US ethnic restaurants.
Local Foods Meet Global Foodways considers movements in context, and, in doing so, complicates the notions that food shapes culture as it crosses borders or that culture adapts foods to its neo-local or global contexts. By analysing the dynamics of contact between mobile foods and/or people and the specific cultures of consumption they provoke, these case studies reveal the process whereby local foods become global, or global foods become local, to be a dynamic, co-creative development jointly facilitated by humans and nature.
This volume explores a vast expanse of global regions, such as North and Central America, Europe, China, East Asia and the Pacific, India, sub-Saharan Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, and the USSR/Russia. It includes a foreword by the eminent food scholar Carole Counihan, and an afterword by noted theorist of cuisine Rachel Laudan, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of history, anthropology, geography, cultural studies and American studies.
This book is based on a special issue of Food and Foodways.
Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Chair of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of Trafficking in Slaverys Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa (2012), Locality, Mobility, and Nation (2007), Interpreters, Intermediaries and Clerks (2006), and The Ewe of Togo and Benin (2006).
Carolyn de la Pea is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis, USA. Her most recent book is Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010).
Local Foods Meet Global Foodways
Tasting History
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Benjamin N. Lawrance and Carolyn de la Pea
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This book is partly based on volume 19, issues 1-2, of Food and Foodways, and includes new material and additional essays from other issues of Foods and Foodways. The Publisher requests that those authors who may cite this book, also cite the bibliographical details of the issue, where appropriate.
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Contents
Carole Counihan
Carolyn de la Pea and Benjamin N. Lawrance 2
Andrea S. Wiley
Audrey Russek
Megan E. Edwards
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Daniel Nemser
Stephanie R. Maroney
Jenny Elaine Goldstein
Ty Matejowsky
G. Roger Knight
Rachel Laudan
Aaron Bobrow-Strain is Associate Professor of Politics at Whitman College, USA. He is the author of White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (2012) and Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas (2007), as well as many articles on agriculture, food, and politics in the United States and Mexico.
Carole Counihan is Professor of Anthropology at Millersville University, USA. She is author of The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power, Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence, and A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. She is editor of Food in the USA, with Penny Van Esterik of Food and Culture, and with Psyche Williams-Forson of Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World. She is editor of Food and Foodways.
Carolyn de la Pea is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is the author of Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (2010), The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (2003) and Rewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies with Siva Vaidahyanathan (2007).
Megan E. Edwards studied at The College of William and Mary, USA, where her interest in anthropology, historical archaeology and food took root. She has an M.A. in Archaeology from the Queens University of Belfast, with a dissertation on the medieval butchery trade in Scotland. She is currently in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA, where she is researching the impact of colonial initiatives and post-medieval social change on whiskey in early modern Ireland.
Jenny Elaine Goldstein is a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Her research interests include food production and distribution, agricultural policy, and environmental conservation in East Africa, Indonesia, and the United States. She holds an M.A. in Geography from UCLA and a B.A. from Barnard College.
G. Roger Knight teaches in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He writes about sugar and the industries that produce it, with special reference to Indonesia. He is co-editor of Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800 to 1940 (2007). He is presently working on aspects of colonial society in the erstwhile Netherlands Indies, and his monograph on the history of the Java sugar industry from the 1820s to the 1980s is forthcoming.
Benjamin N. Lawrance is the Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, and teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He is author with Richard L. Roberts of the forthcoming
