Bibliograph

Eating Puerto Rico, a history of food, culture, and identity

Type

Label

Eating Puerto Rico, a history of food, culture, and identity

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eating Puerto Rico

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução

Sub title

a history of food, culture, and identity

Summary

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. Whether judging by a host of social and economic factors--or by the foods once eaten that have now disappeared--Ortiz concludes that the nature of daily life in Puerto Rico has experienced a sea change

Target audience

adult

Classification