Celebraciones Mexicanas

Author : Andrea Lawson Gray
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0759122830
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebraciones Mexicanas written by Andrea Lawson Gray and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebraciones Mexicanas: History, Traditions, and Recipes is the first book to bring the richness and authenticity of the foods of Mexico’s main holidays and celebrations to the American home cook. This cultural cookbook offers insight into the traditional Mexican holidays that punctuate Mexican life and provides more than 200 original recipes to add to our Mexican food repertoire. The authors first discuss Mexican eating customs and then cover 25 holidays and festivals throughout the year, from the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Carnaval, Cinco de Mayo, to the Day of the Revolution, with family celebrations for rites of passage, too. Each holiday/festival includes historical background and cultural and food information. The lavishly illustrated book is appropriate for those seeking basic knowledge of Mexican cooking and customs as well as aficionados of Mexican cuisine.

Author : Antonia CastaÐeda
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611922677
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recovering The U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume VI written by Antonia CastaÐeda and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years of archival and critical work have been conducted under the auspices of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the written culture of U.S. Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. In the sixth volume of the series, the authors explore key issues and challenges in this project, such as the issues of "place" or region in Hispanic intellectual production, nationalism and transnationalism, race and ethnicity, as well as methodological approaches to recovering the documentary heritage. Included are essays on religious writing, the construction of identity and nation, translation and the movement of books across borders, and women writers and revolutionary struggle.

Author : Elizabeth Silverthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395645420
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiesta! written by Elizabeth Silverthorne and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the cultural and historical background and ways of celebrating many religious and patriotic festivals of Mexico. Includes instructions for making some of the traditional crafts and foods.

Author : Mary Lee Bretz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780073051703
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pasajes: Literatura written by Mary Lee Bretz and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pasajes series is one of the most widely used and highly respected programs for intermediate Spanish courses in North America. As in previous editions, the sixth edition of Pasajes consists of three volumes, all coordinated by theme, chapter by chapter: a review of grammar (Lengua), a cultural reader Cultura), and a literary reader (Literatura). The result is a very flexible program that can be used in any combination and thus is easily adapted to suit the needs of a wide variety of instructors and intermediate courses. The new edition offers a brand new interior design, brief new cultural readings with accompanying photos, updated and revised activities, and more!

Author : Jennifer Packard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442267321
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Broadway written by Jennifer Packard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond being just fuel for the body, food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to tell the audience more about a setting, character, or situation. Because everyone relates to eating, food can also be used to evoke empathy, amusement, or shock from the audience. In some cases, food is central to show’s plot. This book looks at popular musical theater shows to examine which foods are used, how they are used, why they are important, and how the food or usage relates to the broader world. Included are recipes for many of the foods that are significant in the shows discussed.

Author : Katherine A. McIver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442227192
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy written by Katherine A. McIver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Italy’s art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of dining in Renaissance Italy. It takes readers behind the scenes to the Renaissance kitchen and dining room, where everyday meals as well as lavish banquets were prepared and consumed. Katherine McIver considers the design, equipment, and location of the kitchen and food prep and storage rooms in both middle-class homes and grand country estates. The diner’s room, the orchestration of dining, and the theatrical experience of dining are detailed as well, all in the context of the renowned food and architectural scholars of the day.

Author : Suzanne Cope
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442227354
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Small Batch written by Suzanne Cope and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artisanal foods are making a comeback as more and more people seek to stock their pantries, and their bellies, with handcrafted or locally grown and made foods. Specialty markets and sections at grocery stores are catering to this new desire for the special, the unique, the carefully made foods. Small Batch: Pickles, Cheese, Chocolate, Spirits and the Return of Artisanal Foods colorfully details the landscape of the newest wave of the artisanal food revolution by looking at four foods that whet our appetites for specialty. Considering the history and the cultural issues surrounding the resurgence of craft food, including the evolving definition of terroir, the importance of narrative in valuing artisanal food, and the way that these present food trends connect with—and upend—their rich history, Small Batch seeks to define and update the term "artisanal" and give insight into the influences, challenges, and identity of food artisans today. Suzanne Cope sumptuously surveys the collective history of the production of cheese, pickles, chocolate, and alcoholic spirits, and brings this narrative to the present by incorporating interviews with over fifty modern artisans. Cope details the influences, challenges, and evolving identity of these modern craft industries—and places them in context within the recent resurgence and growth of the artisanal segment of the market. Readers interested in craft foods, and what it means to be an artisan, will find here a fascinating history and updating of both.

Author : Kima Cargill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442251328
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Cults written by Kima Cargill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we call any group a cult? Definingthat term is a slippery proposition – the word cult is provocative and arguably pejorative. Does it necessarily refer to a religious group? A group with a charismatic leader? Or something darker and more sinister? Because beliefs and practices surrounding food often inspire religious and political fervor, as well as function to unite people into insular groups, it is inevitable that "food cults" would emerge. Studying the extreme beliefs and practices of such food cults allows us to see the ways in which food serves as a nexus for religious beliefs, sexuality, death anxiety, preoccupation with the body, asceticism, and hedonism, to name a few. In contrast to religious and political cults, food cults have the added dimension of mediating cultural trends in nutrition and diet through their membership. Should we then consider raw foodists, many of whom believe that cooked food is poison, a type of food cult? What about paleo diet adherents or those who follow a restricted calorie diet for longevity? Food Cults explores these questions by looking at domestic and international, contemporary and historic food communities characterized by extreme nutritional beliefs or viewed as "fringe" movements by mainstream culture. While there are a variety of accounts of such food communities across disciplines, this collection pulls together these works and explains why we gravitate toward such groups and the social and psychological functions they serve. This volume describes how contemporary and historic food communities come together and foment fanaticism, judgment, charisma, dogma, passion, longevity, condemnation and exaltation.

Author : Jean Pierre Williot
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115999
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nomadic Food written by Jean Pierre Williot and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, contributors examine the many meanings of the term 'nomad' through the study of food habits. Food and beverage products have become just as nomadic as other objects, such as telephones and computers, whereas in the past only food and money were able to move about with their carriers. Food industries have seized control of this trend to make it the characteristic feature of consumption outside the home - always faster and more convenient, the just-in-time meal: 'what I want, when I want, where I want', snacks, finger food, and street food. The terms reveal the contemporary modernity and spread of food practices, but they are only modified versions of older and more uncommon forms of behavior. Mobility, in the sense of multiple forms of moving about using public or individual, and possibly intermodal, means of transport, on spatial scales and temporal rhythms which are frequent and recurring but variable, responding to professional or leisure needs, can serve as a basic premise in order to gain insight into the concept of food nomadism.

Author : Gesine Gerhard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442227257
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Hunger Politics written by Gesine Gerhard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. The mass murder of Soviet soldiers and civilians by Nazi food policy has not yet received much attention, but this book is about to change that. Food played a central political role for the Nazi regime and served as the foundation of a racial ideology that justified the murder of millions of Jews, prisoners of war, and Slavs. This book is the first to vividly and comprehensively address the topic of food during the Third Reich. It examines the economics of food production and consumption in Nazi Germany, as well as its use as a justification for war and as a tool for genocide. Offering another perspective on the Nazi regime’s desire for domination, Gesine Gerhard sheds light on an often-overlooked part of their scheme and brings into focus the very important role food played in the course of the Second World War.