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Rice and beans : a unique dish in a hundred places
- Title
- Rice and beans : a unique dish in a hundred places / edited by Richard Wilk and Livia Barbosa.
- Publication
- London : Berg Publishers, 2012.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-6898 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xii, 282 p. : ill; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. On the other hand in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture. How can something so universal also be so particular? The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa. But they also plumb the shared African, Native American and European trans-Atlantic encounters and exchanges, and the contemporary forces of globalization and nation-building, which combine to make rice and beans a powerful substance and symbol of the relationship between food and culture"--
- Donor/Sponsor
- Purchased through The Jeremiah Kaplan Endowment for the Social Sciences.
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFE 12-6898
- ISBN
- 9781847889041 (pbk.)
- 1847889042 (pbk.)
- 9781847889058
- 1847889050
- 9781847889034
- 1847889034
- LCCN
- 2012004412
- OCLC
- 812453332
- Title
- Rice and beans : a unique dish in a hundred places / edited by Richard Wilk and Livia Barbosa.
- Imprint
- London : Berg Publishers, 2012.
- Edition
- English ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Added Author
- Wilk, Richard R.Barbosa, Lívia.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-6898