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Secrets from the Greek Kitchen: Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island

By David E. Sutton

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780520959309
DOI
10.1525/9780520959309
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1329991 bytes)
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture; 52
Pages
256\256
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:16:19

Description

Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author’s videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the kitchen as an environment in which people pursue tasks, display expertise, and confront culturally defined risks. Kalymnian islanders, both women and men, use food as a way of evoking personal and collective memory, creating an elaborate discourse on ingredients, tastes, and recipes. Author David E. Sutton focuses on micropractices in the kitchen, such as the cutting of onions, the use of a can opener, and the rolling of phyllo dough, along with cultural changes, such as the rise of televised cooking shows, to reveal new perspectives on the anthropology of everyday living.

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