The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating or Traditional Irish Cookery

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: A Reader

Author: James L Watson

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world.

• Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices

• Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries—Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States

• Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination

See also: Flax the Super Food or Totally Tomato

Traditional Irish Cookery

Author: Carmel Kavenagh

For generations of Irish people around the world, traditional Irish cookery is the taste of their childhood. This cookbook is for them - and for everyone else who envies Ireland's reputation for quality, wholesome, satisfying foods. Ireland is a country where culinary traditions were shaped by a climate, and an economy, that was in turn both unpredictable and demanding. Conditions that could have stifled creativity in fact inspired originality - and turned the humble potato into a culinary work of art.

As an island nation blessed with lush pastures, the Emerald Isle boasts a wealth of seafood and first-class beef, dairy products and fresh produce. This book makes the most of them all, proving there's a lot more to Irish cooking than the famous and ever-popular Irish Stew - although of course you'll find that here too. So take your tastebuds browsing through these pages, and rediscover your appetite for a taste tradition with the staying power only the truly great deserve - through recipes like these. It's comfort food with style. You wouldn't want it any other way.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	4
	Notes on the Recipes	6
	Soups	7
	Lamb and Beef	17
	Pork, Bacon and Ham	33
	Poultry and Game	44
	Fish and Seafood	55
	Vegetables	72
	Desserts, Sweets and Drinks	87
	Bread, Cakes and Biscuits	105
	Index	124