Tastes of Faith by Leah Hochman ( PDF) torrent

Tastes of Faith: Jewish Eating in the United States by Leah Hochman, Steven J. Ross, Lisa Ansell

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Genre: Non-Fiction > Food & Drink

Overview:

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” wrote the eighteenth-century French politician and musician Jean Brillat-Savarin, giving expression to long held assumptions about the role of food, taste, and eating in the construction of cultural identities. Foodways—the cultural, religious, social, economic, and political practices related to food consumption and production—unpack and reveal the meaning of what we eat, our tastes. They explain not just our flavor profiles, but our senses of refinement and judgment. They also reveal quite a bit about the history and culture of how food operates and performs in society