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Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past Book

Sidney Mintz, a professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University examines how foods such as sugar, alcohol, chocolate, and tea, once limited to the rich and powerful, became accessible to the general populace, and how companies such as Coca Cola gained international recognition--exporting their products to even the most remote regions of the world. In his final essay, "Eating American," Mintz discusses the nation's obsession with fitness and diet and our progressive weight gain. He also provides an apocalyptic view of the future--predicting a doubling of the nation's population by 2064, and a loss of more than 180 million acres of arable land through erosion and urbanization.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A renowned anthropologist explores the history and meaning of eating in America.




    Addressing issues ranging from the global phenomenon of Coca-Cola to the diets of American slaves, Sidney Mintz shows how our choices about food are shaped by a vast and increasingly complex global economy. He demonstrates that our food choices have enormous and often surprising significance.
    "A buffet of information."


    â?? Gael McCarthy, The New York Times
    "A collection of thoughtful. . . . essays. [Mintz's] writing is intellectually lively and stylistically colorful."


    â??Colman Andrews, Saveur

  • 0807046280
  • 9780807046289
  • Sidney Wilfred Mintz
  • 1 August 1996
  • Beacon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 149
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