Bigger Fish to Fry - A Theory of Cooking As Risk, With Greek Examples

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one's meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author's anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.

About the author

David E. Sutton has been teaching at the department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Since 1999. He has been a Full Professor since 2011. Key Publications include Secrets from the Greek Kitchen (California Series in Food and Culture, 2014), and Remembrance of Repasts (Berg, Materializing Culture Series, 2001).

Summary

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.

Product details

• Authors: David E. Sutton, Sutton David E.
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800732230
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-223-0
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Greece, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural studies: food and society, COOKING / Regional & Cultural / Greek