Rice Talks : Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town /
"Explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting of...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Deciphering the Hoianese meal
- The social dynamics of the home meal
- Local specialties, local identity
- Feasting with the dead and the living
- Wedding feasts : from culinary scenarios to gastro-anomie
- Food and identity in community festivals
- Rice cakes and candied oranges : culinary symbolism in the big Vietnamese festivals
- Conclusion : food and culture
- interconnections.


