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Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
Jennifer A. Jordan
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Description for Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
Hardcover. Examines the ways that people around the world have sought to identify and preserve old. By cultivating the edible memories, the author reveals that you can stay connected to a delicious heritage of historic flavors and to the pleasures and possibilities for generations of feasts to come. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 238 x 33. Weight in Grams: 674.
Each week during the growing season, farmers' markets offer up such delicious treasures as brandywine tomatoes, cosmic purple carrots, and pink pearl apples - varieties that are prized by home chefs and carefully stewarded by farmers from year to year. These are the heirlooms and the antiques of the food world, endowed with their own rich histories. But how does an apple become an antique and a tomato an heirloom? In Edible Memory, Jennifer A. Jordan examines the ways that people around the world have sought to identify and preserve old - fashioned varieties of produce and the powerful emotional ... Read more
Each week during the growing season, farmers' markets offer up such delicious treasures as brandywine tomatoes, cosmic purple carrots, and pink pearl apples - varieties that are prized by home chefs and carefully stewarded by farmers from year to year. These are the heirlooms and the antiques of the food world, endowed with their own rich histories. But how does an apple become an antique and a tomato an heirloom? In Edible Memory, Jennifer A. Jordan examines the ways that people around the world have sought to identify and preserve old - fashioned varieties of produce and the powerful emotional ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226228105
SKU
V9780226228105
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About Jennifer A. Jordan
Jennifer A. Jordan is associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is also the author of Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond.
Reviews for Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
"Although a lot of books have appeared in recent years about food cultures and foodways, none have analyzed how personal nostalgia and food politics are intertwined, sometimes in mutual support of one another (local heirloom tomatoes) and sometimes in conflict (green Jell-O salad anyone?). Jordan is perfectly situated to examine the emotion work and emotion play we lavish on what ... Read more