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Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity (Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução)
Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra
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Description for Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity (Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução)
Paperback. "Originally published in Spanish with the title Puerto Rico en la olla." Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; HBTB; JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 621.
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial 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 centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz 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, Ortiz asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. ... Read more
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial 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 centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice and cornmeal to beans, roots, herbs, fish, and meat. Ortiz 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, Ortiz asks whether Puerto Ricans really still are what they ate. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Latin America in Translation
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629971
SKU
V9781469629971
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Ref
99-15
About Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra
Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra is senior lecturer in the department of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, and author of Puerto Rico en la olla, among other books.
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