K''oben - 3,000 Years of the Maya Hearth

K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which there is archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the area.

About the author

Amber M. O'Connor has an extensive background in food studies. She's been a cook, an advocate for food sustainability and security, and a culinary anthropologist. Amber started in the food world as a cook. During culinary school she worked in Oaxaca, Mexico in culinary tourism. Later, she worked in non-profits related to food security. Her current research interests involve researching how processes designed to promote cultural diversity seem to instead constrain individual creative endeavors. In particular she is focused on the impacts of UNESCO's recognition of the indigenous cuisines of Mexico as "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" and the re-imagining of authentic "Maya" cuisine by the tourist industry in Quintana Roo and the greater Yucatan peninsula.

Summary

K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which there is archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the area.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Eugene N Anderson, Eugene N. Anderson, Eugene N. O&apos Anderson, Eugene N. O''connor Anderson, Anderson Eugene N., Amber M. connor, Amber M O'Connor, Amber M. O'Connor, Amber M. Anderson O''connor, O'Connor Amber M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2016
• EAN: 9781442255258
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5525-8
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy; Rowman & Littlefield Studies i; Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Theme cookery books; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Guatemala, prehistory, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History: earliest times to present day, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, Prehistoric archaeology, Pre-Columbian America