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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen : Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island /

Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author's videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sutton, David E., 1963- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Video Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Does Greek Food Taste So Good?; 1. Emplacing Cooking; 2. Tools and Their Users; 3. Nina and Irini: Passing the Torch?; 4. Mothers, Daughters, and Others: Learning, Transmission, Negotiation; 5. Horizontal Transmission: Cooking Shows, Friends, and Other Sources of Knowledge; 6. Through the Kitchen Window; Conclusion: So, What Is Cooking?; Epilogue: Cooking (and Eating) in Times of Financial Crisis; Notes; References; Author Index; Keyword Index.