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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gitanjali G. ShahaniPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501748707ISBN 10: 150174870 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 15 May 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Intoduction 1. Spices: ""The Spicèd Indian Air""in Shakespeare's England 2. Sugar: ""So Sweet Was Ne'er So Fatal"" 3. Coffee: Eating Othello, Drinking Coffee 4. Bizarre Foods: Food, Filth, and the Foreign in the Culinary Contact Zone 5. Cannibal Foods: ""Powdered Wife"" and Other Tales of English Cannibalism Coda: Global Foods"ReviewsTasting Differences demonstrates that most experience other cultures and traditions through the mouth. By eating foods from distant lands, one can experience the other from the comfort of home. What humans accept and do not accept as palatable is a rich area of study, and Tasting Differences is an important contribution to the discussion. * Choice * Overall, the book contributes to developing conjectures on why certain communities and bodies cannot be incorporated into the body politic of the nation or the globe, together with explicating how this exclusion is affected by a complex network of taste and feelings that foodstuffs evoke. * Gastronomica * Tasting Differences demonstrates that most experience other cultures and traditions through the mouth. By eating foods from distant lands, one can experience the other from the comfort of home. What humans accept and do not accept as palatable is a rich area of study, and Tasting Differences is an important contribution to the discussion. * Choice * Overall, the book contributes to developing conjectures on why certain communities and bodies cannot be incorporated into the body politic of the nation or the globe, together with explicating how this exclusion is affected by a complex network of taste and feelings that foodstuffs evoke. * Gastronomica * Tasting Differences demonstrates that most experience other cultures and traditions through the mouth. By eating foods from distant lands, one can experience the other from the comfort of home. What humans accept and do not accept as palatable is a rich area of study, and Tasting Differences is an important contribution to the discussion. * Choice * Author InformationGitanjali Shahani is Professor of English at San Francisco State University. She has been published in numerous journals, including Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies, and The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and is editor of Emissaries in Early Modern Literature & Culture and Food and Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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