Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

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.

• Author
• Sidney W. Mintz

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 170

• Publisher
• Beacon Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780807046296

• Genres
• food, anthropology, history, academic, sociology

• Release date
• 1997