Cooking Cultures

This Volume Offers A Study Of Food Cooking And Cuisine In Different Societies And Cultures Over Different Periods Of Time. It Highlights The Intimate Connections Of Food Identity Gender Power Personhood And National Culture And Also The Intricate Combination Of Ingredients Ideas Ideologies And Imagination That Go Into The Representation Of Food And Cuisine. Tracking Such Blends In Different Societies And Continents Developed From Trans-Cultural Flows Of Goods And Peoples Colonial Encounters Adventure And Adaptation And Change In Attitude And Taste Cooking Cultures Makes A Novel Argument About Convergent Histories Of The Globe Brought About By Food And Cooking.