Secrets from the Greek kitchen : cooking, skill, and everyday life on an Aegean island / David E. Sutton.

By:

Sutton, David E, 1963-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: California studies in food and culture ; 52Publication details: Oakland : University of California Press, 2014.Description: xv, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780520280540 (cloth) :
9780520280557 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Cooking, Greek

DDC classification:

641.59495

Summary: "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.

List(s) this item appears in: Cookbooks

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	641.59495 SUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000008000		Placas, Aimee

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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.