| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
544 pages : maps ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-495) and index. |
| Contents |
African -- Albanian -- American -- Armenian -- Australian -- Austrian -- Baltic peoples : Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian -- Belgian -- Belorussian -- Bulgarian -- Canadian : Atlantic Provinces, First Nations, Quebec -- Chinese -- Czech and Slovak -- Danish -- Dutch -- Egyptian -- English -- Filipino -- Finnish -- French -- German -- Greek -- Hungarian -- Icelandic -- Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan -- Indonesian, Malay, and Singaporean -- Iranian -- Irish -- Israeli and Jewish -- Italian -- Japanese -- Korean -- Latin American: Argentinian, Uruguayan, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Venezualan, Peruvian. |
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Maltese -- Mexican -- Moroccan -- New Zealanders -- Norwegian -- People of the Fertile Crescent: Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Syrian -- Polish -- Portuguese -- Romanian -- Russian -- Scottish -- Southern Slavs (formerly Yugoslavian): Bosnian-Herzegovian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian -- Spanish -- Swedish -- Swiss -- Thai -- Tibetan -- Turkish -- Ukrainian -- Vietnamese -- Welsh -- West Indian. |
| Summary |
"A documented study of ethnocultural food traditions ... A historical, regional, and cultural overview begins each chapter with particular emphasis given to factors or events that influenced food availability, selection, preparation and those food habits that have remained as traditions." Each chapter includes sections titled Domestic life, Foods commonly used, Meals, Customs, Special occasions, Cooking methods, Regional specialties, and Glossaries of foods and food terms. |
| Subject |
Food habits.
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Manners and customs.
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Food -- Terminology.
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Manner and customs.
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Food -- Terminology.
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Food. (OCoLC)fst00930458
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Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Ernährungsgewohnheit.
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Internationaler Vergleich.
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| Genre/Form |
Terminology. (OCoLC)fst01423880
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Barer-Stein, Thelma. You eat what you are. 2nd ed. Ontario, Canada ; Buffalo, NY : Firefly Books, 1999 (OCoLC)623209367 |
| ISBN |
1552093654 |
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9781552093658 |
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