Taste, politics, and identities in Mexican food /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Ayora Díaz, Steffan Igor (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : matters of taste : the politics of food and identity in Mexican cuisines / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
  • Part one. Tasting the past in Mexican foods. A touch of pre-Colombian Maya flavor / Lilia Fernández-Souza
  • Gastronomy and the origins of republicanism in Mexico / Sarah Bak-Geller Corona
  • Alcohol consumption patterns among different social groups during Yucatán's gilded age / Héctor Hernández Álvarez and Guadalupe Cámara Gutiérrez
  • The flavors of corn : a unique combination of tradition and nature / Mario Fernández-Zarza and Ignacio López-Moreno
  • Part two. The identity and politics of Mexican foods--and the politics of identity. A taste for agave : the emerging practices and politics of mezcal connoisseurship / Ronda L. Brulotte
  • Making and changing Yucatecan taste in Yucatán : innovation and persistence in Yucatecan gastronomy / Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
  • The life delicious : taste and politics in Mérida, Yucatán / Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
  • To eat chapulines in Oaxaca, Mexico : one food, many flavors / Jeffrey H. Cohen and Paulette Kershenovich Schuster
  • Part three. Taste and displacement : Mexican food in the world of consumption. The taste of Oaxaca : it's to die for! / Ramona L. Pérez
  • Dos Equis and Five Rabitt : beer and taste in greater Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
  • Diffused palates : the evolution of culinary tastes of Jewish Mexicans living in Israel / Paulette Kershenovich Schuster
  • Defining sanitized taste and culinary tourism in Cozumel, Mexico / Christine Vassallo-Oby
  • Postface : is there Mexican food? : taste and the politics of cultural identity / Richard Wilk.