Candice Goucher

Congotay! Congotay! A Global History of Caribbean Food (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Since 1492, the distinct cultures, peoples, and languages of four continents have met in the Caribbean and intermingled in wave after wave of post-Columbian encounters, with foods and their styles of preparation being among the most consumable of the converging cultural elements.

This book traces the pathways of migrants and travelers and the mixing of their cultures in the Caribbean from the Atlantic slave trade to the modern tourism economy. As an object of cultural exchange and global trade, food offers an intriguing window into this world. The many topics covered in the book include foodways, Atlantic history, the slave trade, the importance of sugar, the place of food in African-derived religion, resistance, sexuality and the Caribbean kitchen, contemporary Caribbean identity, and the politics of the new globalization. The author draws on archival sources and European written descriptions to reconstruct African foodways in the diaspora and places them in the context of archaeology and oral traditions, performance arts, ritual, proverbs, folktales, and the children's song game "Congotay." Enriching the presentation are sixteen recipes located in special boxes throughout the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317517320
• Artikelnr.: 42046250

Autorenporträt

Authored by Goucher, Candice

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Map
List of Recipes
Preface
Introduction: The Creole Continuum of Foodways
Creole Culture in the Caribbean Crucible
Creole Cuisine
A Global Historical Narrative
1. Gastronomic Voyages: Magical Foods of the Atlantic World Gastronomic
Voyages In the Wake of Columbus Fishing African Shores Sailing with Salted
Cod African Salt Production Caribbean Salt Production Maritime Encounters
The First Voyagers: Indigenous Cuisines Fishing the Prehistoric Caribbean
Early European Chroniclers Magical Fruits of Paradise
Cooking with Salt Cod Portuguese Bacalhau Caribbean Salt Fish Pepper Pots
Along the Creole Continuum
Preserving Food and Flavor Jerked Meats Marinades Tasting Modernity
2. From African Kitchens: Food and the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
African Foodways Remembered Early Food Production in Africa Trading Foods
and Beliefs Foods Making Meanings
African-European Coastal Encounters Culinary Exchanges The Cook Who Would
Be King Slavery, Food, and Hunger
Foods of the Middle Passage
Saltwater Slaves and Cannibals
Domination and Resistance
Foodways of the African Homeland Arrive in the Caribbean Anancy the
Spider-Cook One Day, One Day, Congotay The Enslaved African's Kitchen Rice
and Provisions Coconuts, Corn, "and Plantains Make It Good" Excavating
African Continuities
Meals in the Great House
Taverns, Punch Houses, and Garrisons
The African-Caribbean Continuum
3. Devil-King Sugar: Hierarchies of Caribbean Foodways
Devil-King Sugar
Sugar's History
Expanding Caribbean Sugar Production Copper Cauldrons Sugar and Labor Sugar
and Caribbean Cultural Innovations Cannes Brulees: Performing the History
of Sugar Cooking with Sugar Indentured Labor: Asian Contributions to
Caribbean Culture and Cuisine Transporting Cuisines Ancient Foodways, New
Borrowings Finding East Indian Identity Chinese Immigration Caribbean Curry
and Roti
Gifts of Sugar
Drinking Sugar Distilled Spirits Kill-Devil Hot and Cold Spiced Drinks
Sugar and the Caribbean Body
4. From Poisoned Roots: Feeding Power and Resistance
Food as Domination and Resistance Poisons and Power Obeah and War: Planting
Resistance The Marketplace
Feeding the Ancestors and Spirits African Food Practices and Beliefs
Gourmet Gods Fasting and Feasting: Christmas and Other Holidays I-tal Foods
of the Rastafarians Asian-Caribbean Religious Foods Hidden at the Hearth
5. For the Love of Food: Sexuality and the Caribbean Kitchen
Food and Family in the Caribbean
Gender and the Caribbean Kitchen Demography and Gender Binary Divides
Gendered Space Gendered Transmission of Knowledge Liming Food and
Procreation Aphrodisiacs Callaloo Potent Food and Drink Cooking
Transgressions
Dangerous Cooking, Dangerous Foods
Dangerous Dining
The Silence and Sounds of Food
Global Food Fusion in Caribbean History
6. Caribbean Hunger: Food, Politics, and Globalization
Feasts and Famines Harvest Feasts Funerary Foods Women and Proverbial
Hunger Globalization and Food Culinary Travels Medicine and Botanical
Science Ice Apples and Banana Boats Caribbean Tourism Caribbean Cookbooks
Urban Cauldrons Caribbean Fast Food Postcolonial Government Interventions
Scarcity and Hunger Changing Ecologies Taking Back the Land Food Memories
and Globalization
A Conclusion in Which Anancy Makes Dinner
Bibliography
Index
About the Author