bowdlerization

proletarian hunger killer

tasting freedom

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Johns Hopkins University

Yale University

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peasant studies

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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economic anthropology

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is, in food studies, the seizing of a local specialty and altering its ingredients and preparation so that it can be shipped vast distances and cooked in 15 minutes.

Convenience items, he says, are a triumph of American marketing over culture. Food marketers exploit the American love of novelty by seizing a local specialty, then altering its ingredients and preparation so it can be shipped vast distances, has a sufficient shelf-life, and can be cooked in 15 minutes.' http://pages.jh.edu/jhumag/1198web/taste.html

is food such as sugar, tea, and chocolate on which workers have come to depend to remain functional in their work.

Coffee has attained tremendous importance among workers. Sidney Mintz, a renowned anthropologist who has written extensively about food, included it in a list for 'proletarian hunger killers,' which also includes sugar, tea, and chocolate (1979). (net)

is the act of cultural self-fashioning through cuisine.

the act of cultural self-fashioning through cuisine' ( -)

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