The anthropologists' cookbook / edited by Jessica Kuper ; illustrated by Joan Koster.

Date:
1977
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"Le Stockfish? Groundnut Stew? Cameroon Bean Pudding? Eskimo Chowder? Whatever your tastes may be, these are just a few of the choice contributions that Jessica Kuper has collected from anthropologists all over the world to create a gastronomic galaxy that no global gourmet will want to be without. More than a mere roll-call of remarkable recipes though, this book provides the reader with a feast of insights into the varied phenomena of inter-cultural cuisine, ranging from an examination of the significance of specific dishes, through general discussions concerning the preparation of food in a particular culture, to an analysis of the symbolic and structural significance of food and eating. Following in the tradition of the classic cookery books, all the contributions include a list of ingredients and give details as to how the meal is to be prepared and served. Further practical aids are provided by Joan Koster's line-drawings. Intrepid explorers of the many culinary delights within these pages will need, in most cases, nothing more than standard kitchen equipment, a good specialist food-store and a taste for adventure in the process of creating many a memorable meal."-- taken from book jacket front flap.

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London : Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.

Physical description

ix, 230 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Mary Douglas -- Preface / Jessica Kuper -- Weights and measures -- Section 1. Europe. Le Stockfish / Julian Pitt-Rivers ; Serving it forth : Food and feasting in Late Medieval England / Lorna J. Sass ; From the flocks of Greece : Galopita / Joan Bouza Koster ; From the fields of Greece : Hortopita / Mari H. Clark Forbes ; Melitera : Greek Island cheese-cakes / Margaret Kenna ; The Spanish pig preserved : The olla and the ham / Susan Tax Freeman ; Salt and sugar in Portugal / Susan Plant Dos Santos ; Faroese fare / Anthony Jackson ; Bosnian coffee / Eugene Hammel ; On strata in the kitchen, or the archaeology of tasting / Joseph Rykwert -- Section 2. The Middle East. Meydiha's kısır : a wheat dish from Southern Turkey / Marianne and Jerry Leach ; Israeli food / Elaine Baldwin -- Section 3. Africa. Cooking in the Garden of Ensete / William and Dorothy Shack ; Some Yoruba ways with yams / William Bascom ; Cameroon koki : A bean pudding from Bangwa / Robert Brain ; An adaptation of Tiv sesame chicken / Laura Bohannan ; Ghanaian groundnut stew / Esther Goody ; Groundnut stew from Sierra Leona / Gay Cohen ; Snacks and stew from Ghana / Lynn Brydon ; A sauce from Sierra Leone / Carol P. MacCormack ; Social aspects of Iteso cookery / Ivan and Patricia Karp ; Food and recipes in Padhola / Anne Sharman ; Malagasy cooking / Bakoly Domenichini Ramiaramanana ; Two recipes from Southern Morocco / Allan R. and Anne R. Meyers ; Tasty little dishes of the Cape / Sheila Patterson -- Section 4. The Americas and the West Indies. A Mexican fish for Easter / Eva Hunt ; Rice and old clothes / Stephen and Roxane Gudeman ; Peruvian cebiche / Eugene Hammel ; Maroon jerk pork and other Jamaican cooking / Barbara Klamon Kopytoff ; Fish chowder with the Chugach Eskimos / Frederica de Laguna ; Amazonian smoked fish and meat : A Colombian Indian technique / Stephen Hugh-Jones ; Three recipes from the Trumai Indians of Brazil / Aurore Monod-Becquelin ; Cooking and eating among the Siriono of Bolivia / Allan R. Holmberg -- Section 5. South-East Asia, Ceylon and Japan : 'Rice with Everything'. Time and menu / Jacques Dournes ; Fish in Laos / Alan Davidson ; Kammu dishes / Kristina Lindell and Damrong Tayanin ; Food with the Yao / Annie Hubert-Schoumann ; Some recipes from Northern Thailand / Merete Aagard Henriksen ; Cooking in a Kelantan fishing village, Malaya / Rosemary Firth ; Foods of Bali / Ingela Gerdin ; Pukkai / Dennis McGilvray ; Oyakodonburi from Japan / Naomichi Ishige -- Section 6. The Pacific and Australia. Roasting dog in an earth oven (Ponape) / Naomichi Ishige ; The earth oven : From the Highlands of Papua New Guinea / Paul Sillitoe ; Pacific Island recipes / Lindsay Verrier ; 'The natives live well' / Isobel White ; The roast and the boiled / Claude Lévi-Strauss.

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  • 0710085834
  • 9780710085832