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Eating Puerto Rico a history of food, culture, and identity / Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra ; translated by Russ Davidson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469612621
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GT2853 .E285 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:Summary: Available for the first time in English, this history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centred on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. The author shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico.
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"Originally published in Spanish with the title Puerto Rico en la olla."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Available for the first time in English, this history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centred on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. The author shows how their production and consumption connects with race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and cultural appropriation in Puerto Rico.

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