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Fats: A Global History
Michelle Phillipov
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Description for Fats: A Global History
Hardback. Featuring a selection of recipes from around the world, Fats explores the complex meanings, debates and controversies that have surrounded this most basic yet fundamental food. Series: Edible. Num Pages: 136 pages, 55 illustrations, 50 in colour. BIC Classification: JFCV; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats have not only shaped world cuisines, they are themselves steeped in cultural and symbolic meanings. From Paleolithic times to contemporary popular culture, fats have been simultaneously essential to life and a decadent indulgence. Alternately reviled and revered, fats have been linked to both power and poverty, and associated with sex and death.Fats: A Global History tells the story of this extraordinary substance. In her engaging and wide-ranging account, Michelle Phillipov considers the changing fates and fortunes of fats across ... Read more
No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats have not only shaped world cuisines, they are themselves steeped in cultural and symbolic meanings. From Paleolithic times to contemporary popular culture, fats have been simultaneously essential to life and a decadent indulgence. Alternately reviled and revered, fats have been linked to both power and poverty, and associated with sex and death.Fats: A Global History tells the story of this extraordinary substance. In her engaging and wide-ranging account, Michelle Phillipov considers the changing fates and fortunes of fats across ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Edible
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780235752
SKU
V9781780235752
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Ref
99-15
About Michelle Phillipov
Michelle Phillipov is a DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her previous publications include Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits (2012).
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