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

Davidson, Russ, translator.
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Call Number:
GT2853 .P83 O7713 2013
Abstract:
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, she 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, she concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change. -- From publisher's website.
ISBN:
9781469608822
Series:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Physical Description:
xvi, 388 pages ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"Originally published in Spanish with the title Puerto Rico en la olla."
Contents:
Rice -- Beans -- Cornmeal -- Codfish -- Viandas -- Meat -- Are we still what we ate? -- Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
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Uniform Title:
Puerto Rico en la olla. English
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