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9780762738373

The Meaning Of Food

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  • ISBN13:

    9780762738373

  • ISBN10:

    0762738375

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2005-04-01
  • Publisher: Globe Pequot
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Summary

This popular anthropology of food includes vignettes from 13 different ethniccommunities, beautiful color photos, and recipes.

Author Biography

Patricia Harris and David Lyon are the authors of several books and hundreds of articles about food and travel, including several articles and radio pieces about food anthropology. They were the founding restaurant reviewers for Microsoft's Boston Sidewalk. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sue McLaughlin, president of Pie in the Sky Productions, is the series creator and executive producer of the PBS series The Meaning of Food. She has more than a decade of experience overseeing large-scale national and international documentary series. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Table of Contents

Episode Segment Order (bigger stories in CAPS)
Food & Life How important food is symbolically and psychologically
Food is Mom. Food is home
Food is a symbol of love, life, being alive, continuation, propagation, joy, grace, and hope
Italian Wedding (San Diego)
Jamai Shasthi - Bengali Fertility Ritual
Breastfeeding
Bringing Food Through Customs (NY)
Nigerian Cabbies' Lunchtruck (Chicago)
""The Table""/NASA
Last Meals (TX)
Ramadan Fasting (WA)
Terezin (cookbook kept in concentration camp
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