| Description |
pages cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Block and table : buying and selling people and food in antebellum New Orleans -- Apples and oranges food and freedom : food workers in antebellum New Orleans -- Field and levee, through the lens : looking at Louisiana sugar after the Civil War -- Mother market : Bulbancha, Babel, New Deal -- The Creole table and "the Black hand in the pot". |
| Summary |
"Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and food discourse both creates and reinforces many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city often defined by its foodways. She uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, dolls, andother material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. McCulla goes far beyond the initial task of tracing New Orleans culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
Quick Clicks. |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
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Food -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Food habits -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
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New Orleans (La.) -- History.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
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| Added Title |
Food and race in New Orleans |
| ISBN |
9780226833828 32.50 |
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0226833828 32.50 |
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