Culinary colonialism, Caribbean cookbooks, and recipes for national independence / Keja L. Valens.

Author/creator Valens, Keja, 1972-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxi, 488 pages ; 27 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesCritical caribbean studies
Abstract "Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures and transformed tastes for independence into flavors of domestic autonomy. Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence integrates new documents into the Caribbean archive and presents them in a rare pan-Caribbean perspective. The first book-length consideration of Caribbean cookbooks, Culinary Colonialism joins a growing body of work in Caribbean studies and food studies that considers the intersections of food writing, race, class, gender, and nationality. A selection of recipes, culled from the archive Culinary Colonialism assembles, allows readers to savor the confluence of culinary traditions and local specifications that connect and distinguish national cuisines in the Caribbean"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 423-457) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023014647
ISBN9781978829541 (paperback)
ISBN9781978829558 (cloth)
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