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The Edible South. The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region.
Marcie Cohen Ferris
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Paperback. Presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Marcie Cohen Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. Num Pages: 496 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; HBTB; JFCV; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 875.
In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial settlements and antebellum plantations, New South cities and Civil Rights-era lunch counters, chronic hunger and agricultural reform, counterculture communes and iconic restaurants as Ferris reveals how food - as cuisine and as commodity ... Read more
In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial settlements and antebellum plantations, New South cities and Civil Rights-era lunch counters, chronic hunger and agricultural reform, counterculture communes and iconic restaurants as Ferris reveals how food - as cuisine and as commodity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629957
SKU
V9781469629957
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About Marcie Cohen Ferris
Marcie Cohen Ferris, associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA is the author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.
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