You eat what you are : people, culture and food traditions

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You eat what you are : people, culture and food traditions / by Thelma Barer-Stein.

Barer-Stein, Thelma, 1930- (Author).

Summary:

"A documented study of ethnocultural food traditions ... A historical, regional, and cultural overview begins each chapter with particular emphasis given to factors or events that influenced food availability, selection, preparation and those food habits that have remained as traditions." Each chapter includes sections titled Domestic life, Foods commonly used, Meals, Customs, Special occasions, Cooking methods, Regional specialties, and Glossaries of foods and food terms.

Record details

ISBN: 1552093654
ISBN: 9781552093658
Physical Description: 544 pages : maps ; 29 cm
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Ontario, Canada ; Firefly Books, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-495) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: African -- Albanian -- American -- Armenian -- Australian -- Austrian -- Baltic peoples : Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian -- Belgian -- Belorussian -- Bulgarian -- Canadian : Atlantic Provinces, First Nations, Quebec -- Chinese -- Czech and Slovak -- Danish -- Dutch -- Egyptian -- English -- Filipino -- Finnish -- French -- German -- Greek -- Hungarian -- Icelandic -- Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan -- Indonesian, Malay, and Singaporean -- Iranian -- Irish -- Israeli and Jewish -- Italian -- Japanese -- Korean -- Latin American: Argentinian, Uruguayan, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Venezualan, Peruvian.

Maltese -- Mexican -- Moroccan -- New Zealanders -- Norwegian -- People of the Fertile Crescent: Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Syrian -- Polish -- Portuguese -- Romanian -- Russian -- Scottish -- Southern Slavs (formerly Yugoslavian): Bosnian-Herzegovian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, and Slovenian -- Spanish -- Swedish -- Swiss -- Thai -- Tibetan -- Turkish -- Ukrainian -- Vietnamese -- Welsh -- West Indian.