Food Around the World: A Cultural Perspective
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9780131936393
- ISBN10:
0131936395
- Edition: 2nd
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007-01-01
- Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary
Provides readers with a sound fundamental knowledge of the world's nations and the uniqueness of today's rich cultural patterns. Food is featured prominently because of its universal appeal and the meaningful ways that geography, climate, economics, and religion have combined with history and culture to define the ingredients and food patterns unique to countries and regions around the world.Offers readers recipes, maps, and photographs from such regions of the world as the British Isles, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, India, Southeast Asia, China, South America, and the Caribbean.For clinical dieticians and administrative dieticians in hospitals.
Table of Contents
| Influences on Food Around the World | |
| Introduction | |
| Cultural Parameters | |
| Religion | |
| Europe: Roots of our American Cuisine | |
| British Isles | |
| Scandinavia | |
| Central Europe | |
| Eastern Europe | |
| Italy | |
| France | |
| Enriched by the Mediterranean Sphere | |
| The Iberian Peninsula | |
| Greece, Turkey, and the Levant | |
| North Africa | |
| Heritage from Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| West Africa | |
| East and South Africa | |
| Food Treasures from the Orient and the Pacific | |
| India and Its Neighbors | |
| Southeast Asia and Its Islands | |
| China | |
| Korea | |
| Japan | |
| Latin American Flavors | |
| South America | |
| The Caribbean | |
| Central America and Mexico | |
| Americarsquo;s Food Scene Today | |
| United States | |
| Diet Counseling in Our Cultural Milieu | |
| Glossary | |
| Recipe Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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