Food Around the World: A Cultural Perspective

by McWilliams, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780131936393
• ISBN10: 0131936395
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

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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