cooking, skill, and everyday life on an Aegean Island /
First Statement of Responsibility
David E. Sutton
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource :
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illustrations
SERIES
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California studies in food and culture ;
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52
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes