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From the Plate to Gastro-Politics - Unravelling the Boom of Peruvian Cuisine

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine's shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a food nation on the global stage. It focuses on the contexts, processes and protagonists that have endowed the country's cuisine with new meaning, new coherence and prominence, and with the ability to communicate what was important for Peruvians after decades of political violence and economic decline. This work unfolds central processes of the culinary project ranging from the emergence of gastronomy, to the refiguring of indigenous people as producers, to the use of cultural identity as an authenticating force. From the Plate to Gastro-Politics offers a critical reading of what has been called a "gastronomic revolution", highlighting the ways in which claims to national unity and social reconciliation smooth over ongoing inequalities.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of food studies, cultural anthropology, heritage studies and Latin American studies.

List of contents

Part I From the Plate ... .- 1 Setting the Table: From Culinary Enchantment to Gastro-Political Agendas.- 2 On the Formation of Peruvian Gastronomy.- 3 The Professional Chef and the Establishment of Gastronomic Conventions.-  4 Cooking up a Global Cuisine.- Part II ... to Gastro-Politics.- 5 Gastro-Politics: Unveiling the Neoliberal Taste.- 6 Food as Heritage: Peruvian Foodways' Road to UNESCO.- 7 Grassroots Gastro-Politics.- 8 Final Considerations and 'Reality Check'.-  

Product details

Authors Raúl Matta
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.12.2024
 
EAN 9783031466595
ISBN 978-3-0-3146659-5
No. of pages 300
Dimensions 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
Weight 414 g
Illustrations XIII, 300 p. 11 illus.
Series Food and Identity in a Globalising World
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous

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