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Author Ortiz Cuadra, Cruz M.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 388 pages .)
Series Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Note "Originally published in Spanish with the title Puerto Rico en la olla."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Rice -- Beans -- Cornmeal -- Codfish -- Viandas -- Meat -- Are we still what we ate? -- Yesterday, today, tomorrow -- Selected Glossary.
Summary This book is a history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico; it unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered 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. Using a multidisciplinary approach and a sweeping array of sources, the author asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors, or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared, the author concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change. -- From publisher's website.
Note Print version record.
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.
Subject Food habits -- Puerto Rico.
Diet -- Puerto Rico.
COOKING -- Regional & Ethnic -- Caribbean & West Indian.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Diet. (OCoLC)fst00893284
Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
Puerto Rico. (OCoLC)fst01205432
Added Author Davidson, Russ, translator.
Added Title Puerto Rico en la olla. English
Other Form: Print version: 9781469608822 1469608820 (DLC) 2013011560
ISBN 1469612623 (electronic bk.)
9781469612621 (electronic bk.)
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