Secrets from the Greek kitchen :
Sutton, David E., 1963-
Secrets from the Greek kitchen : cooking, skill, and everyday life on an Aegean island / David E. Sutton. - Oakland : University of California Press, 2014. - xv, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transforemed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people perform tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks.
Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. Author David E. Sutton focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as cutting onions, using a can opener, and rolling out phyllo dough, as well as cultural changes, such as the rise of televised cooking shows, to reveal new perspectives on the anthropology of everyday living."-- Provided by the publisher.
9780520280540 (cloth) : £52.00 9780520280557 (pbk.)
Cooking, Greek
641.59495
Secrets from the Greek kitchen : cooking, skill, and everyday life on an Aegean island / David E. Sutton. - Oakland : University of California Press, 2014. - xv, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transforemed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people perform tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks.
Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. Author David E. Sutton focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as cutting onions, using a can opener, and rolling out phyllo dough, as well as cultural changes, such as the rise of televised cooking shows, to reveal new perspectives on the anthropology of everyday living."-- Provided by the publisher.
9780520280540 (cloth) : £52.00 9780520280557 (pbk.)
Cooking, Greek
641.59495