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Food and Love: A Cultural History of East and West
Food and Love A Cultural History of East and West Author:Jack Goody Drawing out the historical processes embedded in the most intimate recesses of our live, from a thinker who enjoys subverting neat simplifications and rigid preconceptions. In Food and Love, Jack Goody surveys phenomena as diverse as the uniqueness of the European family, the development of romantic love, the evolution... more » of national and regional cuisines, and the globalization of Chinese food, effortlessly incorporating fascinating examples ranging from Europe to Asia and Africa. Throughout the book, Goody shows that the ethnocentricity of much of Western scholarship has distorted not only the comprehension of the East but also of developments in Europe?s past and present. .« less