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Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“The world becomes a pageant of diversity with its differences neatly organised and selected.”

Culture Food Diversity Anthropology Food Anthropology Globalisation

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“How fragile is a world so connected and tied together that a change in food fashion in one place can lead to starvation halfway through the world?”

Food Anthropology Food Anthropology Globalisation Food System

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“Food is also the stuff of international politics, and the power of one country to control the daily bread of another has always been politically important.”

Politics Food Anthropology Food Anthropology Food Studies

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“There is no culture where everyone cooks in the same way.”

Culture Food Cooking Food Anthropology Globalisation

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“Only from our position of power can we afford to ignore where things really come from, because we know that all things drain, like syrup through a pipeline, from the edges of the world into the centre. What we want will appear, as if by magic, on the shelves of our supermarkets because were have the money to pay for it. We don’t have to know - other people grow it and process it, and buy it and sell it until all we see is the brand, a language we understand without effort. All those strange substances are fuzed together for our convenience, our health, our pleasure.”

Food Anthropology Food Writing Food Anthropology Globalisation Food System Food Studies

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“Foodways like any other aspect of culture, are never static. Even without the influence of other cultures, we would be eating and cooking differently from the generations that came before us.”

Culture Food Eating Cooking Food Anthropology Foodways

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“People want to think of a food tradition as something that would continue unchanging and timeless, unless some outside force knocked things askew.”

Food Tradition Anthropology Food Anthropology Globalisation

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“How old does a recipe have to be in order to be traditional? What should we think when an old industrial food like salted (corned) beef or pickled herring becomes a part of “traditional” ethnic cuisine?”

Food Cooking Traditional Anthropology Cuisine Food Anthropology Recipe

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“Food is packed with meaning, as well as vitamins, carbohydrates and protein. It satisfies needs beyond those of the body and the pocketbook. Food is a medium to build families, religious communities, ethnic boundaries and a consciousness of history.”

Culture Food Meaning Food Anthropology Food System Food Studies

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“The idea that foods and diets will “just mix” when they come into contact is clearly a vast oversimplification.”

Food Anthropology Diet Food Anthropology Globalisation

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“But instead of being frozen in time, I want to show that “local” and “authentic” food are as much creations of modernity as survivors from before it. Authenticity is therefore a problem, not something we can ever depend on as some kind of naturally occurring category. Tradition is crafted, just as much as modernity is manufactured.”

Food Tradition Authenticity Modernity Food Anthropology Globalisation

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

“Or could it be that there is something about globalisation itself that produces local culture, and promotes the constant formation of new forms of local identity, dress, cuisine, music, dance and language?”

Culture Identity Anthropology Global Food Anthropology Globalisation Local Food Studies

Book:Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

Source: Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

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